Example of monitoring measurements in a virtual eye clinic using 'big data'
| Autor: | Lee Jones, Aachal Kotecha, David P. Crabb, Marco A. Miranda, Susan R Bryan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Big Data
Male Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Vision Disorders Glaucoma Monitoring Ambulatory 03 medical and health sciences Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience User-Computer Interface 0302 clinical medicine Healthcare delivery medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Intraocular Pressure Aged Retrospective Studies Glaucoma monitoring business.industry Middle Aged medicine.disease Sensory Systems Absolute deviation Ophthalmology 030221 ophthalmology & optometry Physical therapy Reference database Visual Field Tests RE Female Visual Fields business |
| Zdroj: | The British journal of ophthalmology. 102(7) |
| ISSN: | 1468-2079 0007-1161 |
| Popis: | AimTo assess the equivalence of measurement outcomes between patients attending a standard glaucoma care service, where patients see an ophthalmologist in a face-to-face setting, and a glaucoma monitoring service (GMS).MethodsThe average mean deviation (MD) measurement on the visual field (VF) test for 250 patients attending a GMS were compared with a ‘big data’ repository of patients attending a standard glaucoma care service (reference database). In addition, the speed of VF progression between GMS patients and reference database patients was compared. Reference database patients were used to create expected outcomes that GMS patients could be compared with. For GMS patients falling outside of the expected limits, further analysis was carried out on the clinical management decisions for these patients.ResultsThe average MD of patients in the GMS ranged from +1.6dB to −18.9dB between two consecutive appointments at the clinic. In the first analysis, 12 (4.8%; 95% CI 2.5% to 8.2%) GMS patients scored outside the 90% expected values based on the reference database. In the second analysis, 1.9% (95% CI 0.4% to 5.4%) GMS patients had VF changes outside of the expected 90% limits.ConclusionsUsing ‘big data’ collected in the standard glaucoma care service, we found that patients attending a GMS have equivalent outcomes on the VF test. Our findings provide support for the implementation of virtual healthcare delivery in the hospital eye service. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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