Padmaja Kumari R, Raman Rajiv, Sharma Tarun
Ophthalmologist, Sankara Nethralaya Diabetic Retinopathy Project, Vision Research Foundation, 18 College Road, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Pharm World Sci. 2008 Dec;30(6):750-2. doi: 10.1007/s11096-008-9225-4. Epub 2008 Jun 13.
The present study was undertaken to elucidate the most frequently visited health care provider by the population attending a tertiary eye care hospital in South India.
A trained observer administered the questionnaire to 150 literate subjects aged above 30 years. Data collection included factors such as age, gender, single-index socioeconomic status (monthly income), presence of diabetes, and the name of the health care provider, including the number of times he or she was visited in the last 1 and 6 months.
A total of 122 individuals (including persons with or without diabetes) responded to the questionnaire. Pharmacists were the most frequently visited health care providers; a pharmacist was visited nearly every month by a person with diabetes and about once in 2 months by a person without diabetes.
This study revealed that the most frequently visited health care providers by the population with diabetes were pharmacists.
开展本研究以阐明印度南部一家三级眼科医院的就诊人群最常前往就医的医疗服务提供者。
一名经过培训的观察员向150名30岁以上的识字受试者发放问卷。数据收集包括年龄、性别、单一指标社会经济地位（月收入）、糖尿病患病情况以及医疗服务提供者的姓名，包括过去1个月和6个月内就诊的次数。
共有122人（包括患有或未患有糖尿病的人）回复了问卷。药剂师是最常前往就医的医疗服务提供者；糖尿病患者几乎每月都会去看药剂师，非糖尿病患者大约每两个月去一次。
本研究表明，糖尿病患者最常前往就医的医疗服务提供者是药剂师。
