Inpatient Virtual Vision Clinic Improves Access to Vision Rehabilitation Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe and evaluate a secure video call system combined with a suite of iPad vision testing apps to improve access to vision rehabilitation assessment for inpatients.

Design

Retrospective.

Setting

Two acute care inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and 1 long-term acute care (LTAC) hospital.

Participants

Records of inpatients seen by the vision service.

Interventions

Records from a 1-year telemedicine pilot performed at acute rehabilitation (AR) hospital 1 and then expanded to AR hospital 2 and LTAC hospital during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were reviewed. In the virtual visits, an occupational therapist measured the patients' vision with the iPad applications and forwarded results to the off-site Doctor of Optometry (OD) for review

SUBMITTER: Keilty M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7749728 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature