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Resident recognition of open-angle glaucoma: effects of an educational intervention.

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Caudill, TS; Westman, EC; Holleman, DR; Rich, EC
Published in: J Gen Intern Med
September 1993

To test an educational intervention's effect on improving detection of glaucoma by direct ophthalmoscopy, 14 medicine residents examined five patients, two with ophthalmoscopic changes of glaucoma and three with normal fundi. The residents observed a standardized slide/narrative educational intervention reviewing glaucomatous ophthalmoscopic changes and then re-examined the same patients eight to 12 weeks later. The intervention's odds of improving residents' diagnostic impression were significant (OR = 2.2; 95% CI = 1.3-3.6), with significant improvement in sensitivity (p = 0.02) and a trend toward improved specificity. These findings confirm that the diagnosis of glaucomatous ocular changes on eye examinations by medicine residents can be improved with a brief educational intervention.

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J Gen Intern Med

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ISSN

0884-8734

Publication Date

September 1993

Volume

8

Issue

9

Start / End Page

515 / 516

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Ophthalmoscopy
  • Logistic Models
  • Internship and Residency
  • Humans
  • Glaucoma, Open-Angle
  • General & Internal Medicine
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Clinical Competence
  • 4206 Public health
  • 4203 Health services and systems
 

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Caudill, T. S., Westman, E. C., Holleman, D. R., & Rich, E. C. (1993). Resident recognition of open-angle glaucoma: effects of an educational intervention. J Gen Intern Med, 8(9), 515–516. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02600117
Caudill, T. S., E. C. Westman, D. R. Holleman, and E. C. Rich. “Resident recognition of open-angle glaucoma: effects of an educational intervention.J Gen Intern Med 8, no. 9 (September 1993): 515–16. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02600117.
Caudill TS, Westman EC, Holleman DR, Rich EC. Resident recognition of open-angle glaucoma: effects of an educational intervention. J Gen Intern Med. 1993 Sep;8(9):515–6.
Caudill, T. S., et al. “Resident recognition of open-angle glaucoma: effects of an educational intervention.J Gen Intern Med, vol. 8, no. 9, Sept. 1993, pp. 515–16. Pubmed, doi:10.1007/BF02600117.
Caudill TS, Westman EC, Holleman DR, Rich EC. Resident recognition of open-angle glaucoma: effects of an educational intervention. J Gen Intern Med. 1993 Sep;8(9):515–516.
Journal cover image

Published In

J Gen Intern Med

DOI

ISSN

0884-8734

Publication Date

September 1993

Volume

8

Issue

9

Start / End Page

515 / 516

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Ophthalmoscopy
  • Logistic Models
  • Internship and Residency
  • Humans
  • Glaucoma, Open-Angle
  • General & Internal Medicine
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Clinical Competence
  • 4206 Public health
  • 4203 Health services and systems