Outreach screening to address demographic and economic barriers to diabetic retinopathy care in rural China
Baixiang Xiao,
Gareth D Mercer,
Ling Jin,
Han Lin Lee,
Tingting Chen,
Yanfang Wang,
Yuanping Liu,
Alastair K Denniston,
Catherine A Egan,
Jia Li,
Qing Lu,
Ping Xu and
Nathan Congdon
PLOS ONE, 2022, vol. 17, issue 4, 1-11
Abstract:
Importance: Poor access to existing care for diabetic retinopathy (DR) limits effectiveness of proven treatments. Objectives: We examined whether outreach screening in rural China improves equity of access. Design, setting and participants: We compared prevalence of female sex, age > = 65 years, primary education or below, and requiring referral care for DR between three cohorts with diabetes examined for DR in neighboring areas of Guangdong, China: passive case detection at secondary-level hospitals (n = 193); persons screened during primary-level DR outreach (n = 182); and individuals with newly- or previously-diagnosed diabetes in a population survey (n = 579). The latter reflected the “ideal” reach of a screening program. Results: Compared to the population cohort, passive case detection reached fewer women (50·8% vs. 62·3%, p = 0·006), older adults (37·8% vs. 51·3%, p 0.300) and persons aged > = 65 years (49.5% vs 51.3%, p = 0.723) in the outreach screening and population cohorts did not differ significantly. Prevalence of requiring referral care for DR was significantly higher in the outreach screening cohort (28·0%) than the population (14·0%) and passive case detection cohorts (7·3%, p
Date: 2022
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