A national survey of the current state of screening services for diabetic retinopathy: ABCD-Diabetes UK survey of specialist diabetes services 2006

Some patients are of extra concern in diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening programmes. Failure to attend is a common problem and there are many reasons for this. Additional screening episodes may be required for medical reasons. The most commonly encountered situation is pregnancy, where special provision for screening services should be integrated into pre-conception and antenatal care. Rapid changes in glycaemic control may result in temporary deterioration in pre-existing retinopathy and, where possible, should be anticipated. This scenarios is likely to be seen more commonly with the availability of the insulin pump and bariatric surgery being considered more often. An aggravating effect of hypertension on DR needs to be recognized.

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Survey of diabetic retinopathy screening services in England and Wales

Diabetic Medicine ◽

10.1046/j.1464-5491.1999.00051.x ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 269-269

Author(s):

S Prasad

Keyword(s):

Diabetic Retinopathy ◽

England And Wales ◽

Diabetic Retinopathy Screening ◽

Screening Services ◽

Retinopathy Screening

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Current state of brachytherapy teaching in Canada: A national survey of radiation oncologists, residents, and fellows

Brachytherapy ◽

10.1016/j.brachy.2014.11.004 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 197-201 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Marc Gaudet ◽

Jasbir Jaswal ◽

Mira Keyes

Keyword(s):

National Survey ◽

Current State ◽

Radiation Oncologists

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Current state of cardiac rehabilitation in Portugal: Results of the 2019 national survey

Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia (English Edition) ◽

10.1016/j.repce.2021.10.024 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 40 (11) ◽

pp. 877-887

Author(s):

José Paulo Fontes ◽

Eduardo M. Vilela ◽

Anaí Durazzo ◽

Madalena Teixeira

Keyword(s):

Cardiac Rehabilitation ◽

National Survey ◽

Current State

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Biomarkers for diabetic retinopathy

Diabetes Mellitus ◽

10.14341/dm10045 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 88-94 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Maria V. Budzinskaya ◽

Dmitry V. Lipatov ◽

Vladislav G. Pavlov ◽

Denis V. Petrachkov

Keyword(s):

Diabetic Retinopathy ◽

Data Analysis ◽

Clinical Response ◽

Treatment Options ◽

Personalised Medicine ◽

Individual Treatment ◽

Treatment Regimens ◽

Current State ◽

Actual Direction ◽

New Biomarkers

A data analysis on the actual direction of biomedicine, the study of biomarkers in diabetic retinopathy (DR), was done. Biomarkers identification is important for screening, diagnosis, monitoring, prevention and prediction of the clinical response of the patient to the treatment. In addition, studying the biomarkers allows increase of the effectiveness and safety of using various treatment options. The review examines two main groups of biomarkers, molecular and visualised, which shows the current state of the problem and the prospects for studying biomarkers in the context of the DR treatment. Nowadays, searching for and finding new biomarkers is important and will allow us to develop individual treatment regimens for DR and personalised medicine in an interdisciplinary aspect: ophthalmology and endocrinology.

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EEG education in Brazil: a national survey of adult neurology residents

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria ◽

10.1590/0004-282x-anp-2021-0150 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Elora Sampaio Lourenço ◽

Dora Pedroso Kowacs ◽

Jay Raman Gavvala ◽

Pedro André Kowacs ◽

Fábio Augusto NASCIMENTO

Keyword(s):

National Survey ◽

Education System ◽

Online Survey ◽

Teaching Method ◽

Residency Programs ◽

Current State ◽

Level Of Confidence ◽

Survey Results ◽

Education Requirements ◽

Education In Brazil

ABSTRACT Background: In light of the established challenges of resident EEG education worldwide, we sought to better understand the current state of neurology resident EEG education in Brazil. Objective: To define Brazilian EEG practices including in-residency requirements for EEG training and competency. Methods: We assessed the perspectives of adult residents (PGY1-3) on EEG education and their level of confidence interpreting EEG with a 24-question online survey. Results: We analyzed 102 responses from 52 Brazilian neurology residency programs distributed in 14 states. There were 18 PGY1s, 45 PGY2s, and 39 PGY3s. Ninety-six percent of participants reported that learning how to read EEG during residency was very or extremely important. The most commonly reported barriers to EEG education were insufficient EEG exposure (70%) and ineffective didactics (46%). Residents believed that standard EEG lectures were the most efficient EEG teaching method followed by interpreting EEG with attendings’ supervision. Roughly half of residents (45%) reported not being able to read EEG even with supervision, and approximately 70% of all participants did not feel confident writing an EEG report independently. Conclusion: Despite the well-established residency EEG education requirements recommended by the Brazilian Academy of Neurology (ABN), there seems to be a significant lack of comfort interpreting EEG among Brazilian adult neurology residents. We encourage Brazilian neurology residency leadership to re-evaluate the current EEG education system in order to ensure that residency programs are following EEG education requirements and to assess whether EEG benchmarks require modifications.

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