Tuck M W
IGA Research Unit, King's College Hospital, London, UK.
Ophthalmic Physiol Opt. 1991 Jan;11(1):22-6.
In a survey covering 275,600 eye examinations by optometrists, 0.55% resulted in a referral to a medical practitioner for suspected glaucoma. Some 85-90% of the referred patients subsequently attended for examination by a consultant ophthalmologist. Of these, rather more than a third were confirmed as having glaucoma, almost a third were discharged as not having the disease, and the diagnosis was borderline for the remainder. The survey's results imply that optometrists detect about 20,000 cases of glaucoma in England and Wales each year.
在一项涵盖验光师进行的275,600次眼部检查的调查中，0.55%的检查因疑似青光眼而转诊至医生处。约85% - 90%的转诊患者随后前往眼科顾问医生处进行检查。其中，超过三分之一被确诊患有青光眼，近三分之一被诊断为无此病而出院，其余患者的诊断处于临界状态。该调查结果表明，验光师每年在英格兰和威尔士检测出约20,000例青光眼病例。
