Impact of targeted diabetic retinopathy training for graders in Vietnam and the implications for future diabetic retinopathy screening programmes: a diagnostic test accuracy study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To compare the accuracy of trained level 1 diabetic retinopathy (DR) graders (nurses, endocrinologists and one general practitioner), level 2 graders (midlevel ophthalmologists) and level 3 graders (senior ophthalmologists) in Vietnam against a reference standard from the UK and assess the impact of supplementary targeted grader training.

Design

Diagnostic test accuracy study.

Setting

Secondary care hospitals in Southern Vietnam.

Participants

DR training was delivered to Vietnamese graders in February 2018 by National Health Service (NHS) UK graders. Two-field retinal images (412 patient images) were graded by 14 trained graders in Vietnam between August and October 2018 and then regraded retrospectively by an NHS-certified reference standard UK opto

SUBMITTER: Curran K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9472142 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature