Enablers and Barriers to Deployment of Smartphone-Based Home Vision Monitoring in Clinical Practice Settings.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Telemedicine is accelerating the remote detection and monitoring of medical conditions, such as vision-threatening diseases. Meaningful deployment of smartphone apps for home vision monitoring should consider the barriers to patient uptake and engagement and address issues around digital exclusion in vulnerable patient populations.

Objective

To quantify the associations between patient characteristics and clinical measures with vision monitoring app uptake and engagement.

Design, setting, and participants

In this cohort and survey study, consecutive adult patients attending Moorfields Eye Hospital receiving intravitreal injections for retinal disease between May 2020 and February 2021 were included.

Exposures

Patients were offered the Home Vision Mon

SUBMITTER: Korot E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8678899 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature