Influence of education and diagnostic modes on glaucoma assessment by optometrists

ConclusionThe study highlighted the importance of combining both structural and functional assessments in glaucoma. Current imaging technology demonstrated limited usefulness for event diagnosis due to the persistent difficulties of defining structural and functional loss in glaucoma, thus highlighting the need for new glaucoma assessment techniques. Short‐term didactic teaching programs may only result in limited improvement of glaucoma diagnostic ability in optometrists, and hence, it may need to be combined with long‐term and/or non‐didactic training components to obtain a greater effect.
Source: Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics - Category: Opthalmology Authors: Tags: Original Article Source Type: research