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0000-0001-9104-6327
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Bond University
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Bond University Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine
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Publisher: BMJ
Date: 23-05-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2015
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Date: 14-05-2014
Publisher: The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Date: 12-2022
Publisher: The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Date: 03-2022
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-09-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-11-2021
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2015
Publisher: Therapeutic Guidelines Limited
Date: 12-2011
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 12-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-04-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2020
DOI: 10.1111/CXO.12916
Abstract: It was the author's (LWH) observation that pterygium was frequently misdiagnosed by general practitioners that led to this study. The aim was to identify the rate of misdiagnosis of pterygium by optometrists and general practitioners based upon assessing referral accuracy to a single ophthalmologist (LWH). This study involved a prospective case series from 25 March 2015 to 18 December 2018 in a tertiary referral practice specialising in pterygium. The accuracy of diagnosis of pterygium, based upon the content of the clinical referral, was undertaken for optometrists and general practitioners. The benchmark for diagnostic accuracy was the diagnosis made by the author (LWH) during a consultation in person by the author (LWH) using a hand-light examination and confirmed by slitl examination. A total of 1,511 consecutive patients were included in the study with 90/549 incorrectly diagnosed (16 per cent) by general practitioners and 14/962 (1.4 per cent) by optometrists. General practitioners were 13.28 times more likely to incorrectly diagnose a pterygium than optometrists (95% CI 7.48-23.57). Almost exclusively, the incorrect diagnosis made by general practitioners was naming a pinguecula, a pterygium. The same misdiagnosis was made by optometrists but far less frequently. General practitioners misdiagnosed pterygium far more often than optometrists which may reflect a reduction in training in eye health.
Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Date: 03-01-2022
DOI: 10.2514/6.2022-0696
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-01-2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-09-2020
DOI: 10.1111/MEDU.14357
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-08-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-09-2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-05-2016
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: Australia
Location: Australia
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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