Audit of elderly people's eye problems and non-attendance at hospital eye service

Hillman, Jonathan G.

doi:10.1136/bmj.308.6934.953

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“…19 The introduction of direct booking systems to hospital services should provide patients with improved choice, this has been shown to improve attendance for audiological services. 20 Of the children referred to the HES, 170 (51%) had either a constant manifest or an intermittent deviation.…”

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Uptake, referral and attendance: results from an inner city school based vision screening programme

Bruce¹,

Outhwaite

2012

British and Irish Orthoptic Journal

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Aim: To review the children's school vision screening service in order to investigate the uptake, referral pattern and follow-up attendance. Methods: The children were screened in school. The vision screening results of the children screened in the academic year 2011-2012 were reviewed for both uptake of screening and subsequent attendance for the follow-up assessment. Attendance outcomes from children referred to an optometrist of their choice and also those children referred to the Hospital Eye Service (HES) were reviewed. Results: Of the 5786 children eligible for vision screening in school 5409 were screened (96.7%). A total of 866 (16%) of children were referred for further investigation; 534 (9.87%) were referred to an optometrist of their choice and 332 (6%) were referred to the Hospital Eye Service (HES). 479 (55.3%) attended the first appointment sent. 114 (34.4%) failed to attend (FTA) the HES and 257 (48.13%) failed to attend their local optometrist. Recall appointments for the HES yielded a 10.54% increase in coverage and recall appointments sent to attend local optometrists yielded a 14.23% increase in coverage. Conclusions: Vision screening in school provides the opportunity for universal coverage. However, the failure to attend for follow-up both in the community and in the Hospital Eye Service (HES) suggests that a high proportion of children fail to benefit from appropriate treatment. Further research is required to provide an insight into the reasons for failing to attend that subsequently limit access.

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Uptake, referral and attendance: results from an inner city school based vision screening programme

Bruce¹,

Outhwaite

2012

British and Irish Orthoptic Journal

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“…92 The quality of the visual screening of this age group in general practice was questioned. 97 Hillman drew attention to the predicament of the elderly in keeping up with hospital appointments, 98 prompting the reader to question whether this is a group for whom transfer of care to the community might genuinely be needed.…”

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Primary care and ophthalmology in the United Kingdom

Riad

Dart²,

Cooling³

2003

British Journal of Ophthalmology

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“…Non-attendance increases waiting lists 4. Non-attendance is unrelated to the seriousness of the illness,5 and patients who do not attend may have treatable morbidity 6. The duration of new appointments is usually longer than follow up appointments7 making non-attendance for new appointments more wasteful.…”

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Effect on hospital attendance rates of giving patients a copy of their referral letter: randomised controlled trial

Hamilton

Round

Sharp

1999

BMJ

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Objectives To investigate whether sending patients a copy of their referral letter can reduce non-attendance at outpatient departments. Design Blinded randomised controlled trial. Setting 13 general practices in Exeter, Devon. Subjects 2078 new consultant referrals from 26 doctors. Main outcome measures Non-attendance at outpatient departments. Results The doctors excluded 117 (5.6%) referrals, and 100 (4.8%) received no appointment. Attendance data were available for 1857 of the 1861 patients sent an appointment (99.8%). The receipt of a copy letter had no effect on the non-attendance rate: copy 50/912 (5.5%) versus control 50/945 (5.3%). Conclusion Copy letters are ineffective in reducing non-attendance at outpatient departments.

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Audit of elderly people's eye problems and non-attendance at hospital eye service

Cited by 16 publications

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Uptake, referral and attendance: results from an inner city school based vision screening programme

Uptake, referral and attendance: results from an inner city school based vision screening programme

Primary care and ophthalmology in the United Kingdom

Effect on hospital attendance rates of giving patients a copy of their referral letter: randomised controlled trial

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