Indicators for Assessing the Quality of Refractive Error Care.

ABSTRACT:

Significance

Quality refractive error care is essential for reducing vision impairment. Quality indicators and standardized approaches for assessing the quality of refractive error care need to be established.

Purpose

This study aimed to develop a set of indicators for assessing the quality of refractive error care and test their applicability in a real-world setting using unannounced standardized patients (USPs).

Methods

Patient outcomes and three quality of refractive error care (Q.REC) indicators (1, optimally prescribed spectacles; 2, adequately prescribed spectacles; 3, vector dioptric distance) were developed using existing literature, refraction training standards, and consulting educators. Twenty-one USPs with various refractive errors were trained to visit op

SUBMITTER: Lee L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7774814 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature