| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-01T21:18:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-02-01T21:18:28Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2022-02-01T21:18:28Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/11307 | |
| dc.identifier | https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trab175 | |
| dc.description.abstract | BACKGROUND: Improvements in technology could facilitate task-shifting and ocular disease screening in rural areas. METHODS: Visual acuity (VA) was tested using a Ministry of Health 3-m VA card. Anterior segment photographs were taken using a three-dimensional printed cellphone attachment and remotely graded. RESULTS: Of 326 photographed eyes, 1 was ungradable. Of 123 eyes with non-refractive visual impairment, cataract was identified in 35.8%, pterygium in 41.5%, corneal opacity in 5.7% and phthisis in 2.4%. CONCLUSIONS: While the cause of visual impairment cannot be determined without a posterior segment examination, the smartphone attachment proved to be easy to use by non-specialist workers and identified anterior segment pathology in most cases | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | |
| dc.relation | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | |
| dc.relation | 1878-3503 | |
| dc.rights | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | |
| dc.subject | screening | |
| dc.subject | telemedicine | |
| dc.subject | remote, resource-limited areas | |
| dc.subject | smartphone attachment | |
| dc.title | Telemedicine for screening eye disease in the remote Peruvian Amazon: proof-of-concept. | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
