Article PDF
References
British Multicentre Photocoagulation Trial. Proliferative diabetic retinopathy: treatment with xenon-arc photocoagulation. BMI 1977;1:739–41.
Diabetic Retinopathy Study Research Group. Photocoagulation treatment of proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Ophthalmology 1981;88:583–600.
Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study Research Group. Photocoagulation for diabetic macular edema. Arch Ophthalmol 1985;103:1796–806.
Olk RJ . Modified grid argon (blue-green) laser photocoagulation for diffuse diabetic macular edema. Ophthalmology 1986;93:938–50.
British Multicentre Study Group. Photocoagulation for diabetic maculopathy: a randomised controlled clinical trial using the xenon arc. Diabetes 1983;32:1010–6.
Hercules BL, Gayed II, Lucas SB, Jeacock J . Peripheral retinal ablation in the treatment of proliferative diabetic retinopathy: a three-year interim report of a randomised, controlled study using the argon laser. Br J Ophthalmol 1977;61:555–63.
Evans J, Rooney C, Ashwood F, Dattani N, Wormald R . Blindness and partial sight in England and Wales: April 1990-March 1991. Health Trends 1996;28:5–12.
Bachman MO, Nelson SJ . Impact of diabetic retinopathy screening on a British district population: case detection and blindness in an evidence-based model. J Epidemiol Community Health 1998;52:45–52.
Rohan TE, Frost CD, Wald NJ . Prevention of blindness by screening for diabetic retinopathy: a quantitative assessment. BMI 1989;299:1198–201.
Foulds W, McCuish A, Barrie T, et al. Diabetic retinopathy in the West of Scotland: its detection and prevalence, and cost-effectiveness of a proposed screening programme. Health Bull 1983;41:318–26.
Javitt JC, Canner JK, Frank RG, Steinwachs DM, Sommer A . Detecting and treating retinopathy in patients with type 1 diabetes. Ophthalmology 1990;97:483–92.
WHO/IDF Europe. Diabetes care and research in Europe: the St Vincent Declaration. Diabet Med 1990;7:360.
Harding SP, Broadbent DM, Neoh C, White MC, Vora J . Sensitivity and specificity of photography and direct ophthalmoscopy in screening for sight threatening eye disease: the Liverpool diabetic eye study. BMJ 1995;311:1131–5.
Robinson R, Deutsch J, Jones HS, Fielder AR . Unrecognised and unregistered visual impairment. Br J Ophthalmol 1994;78:736–40.
Klein R, Klein BEK, Moss SE . Visual impairment in diabetes. Ophthalmology 1984;91:1–5.
Rhatigan MC, Leese GP, Ellis J, Ellingford A, Morris AD, Newton RW, Roxburgh STD . Blindness in patients with diabetes who have been screened for eye disease. Eye 1999;13:166–9.
Broadbent DM, Scott JA, Vora JP, Harding SP . Prevalence of diabetic eye disease in an inner city population: the Liverpool Diabetic Eye Study. Eye 1999;13:160–5.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Hart, P., Harding, S. Is it time for a national screening programme for sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy?. Eye 13, 129–130 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1999.37
Issue date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1999.37
