Internal medicine journal
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Internal medicine journal · Jun 2019
Integrating diabetic retinopathy screening within diabetes education services in Australia's diabetes and indigenous primary care clinics.
As diabetes occurs in all ethnicities and regions it is essential that retinopathy screening be widely available. Screening rates are lower in Indigenous than in non-Indigenous Australians. ⋯ Diabetes educators are an integral part of diabetes management. Integrating ocular screening and diabetes education in primary care settings has potential to improve synergistically retinopathy screening coverage, patient self-management, risk factor control, care satisfaction, health economics and sustainability of under-resourced services.