Kotecha Aachal

Virtual clinics in glaucoma care: face-to-face versus remote decision-making.

The low rate of adverse misclassification, combined with the slowly progressive nature of most glaucoma, and the fact that patients will all be regularly reassessed, suggests that virtual clinics offer a safe, logistically viable option…

Quality of Life in the Tube Versus Trabeculectomy Study.

Trabeculectomy and tube shunt surgery had similar impact on patient-reported vision-specific QoL measured using the NEI VFQ-25.

Developing standards for the development of glaucoma virtual clinics using a modified Delphi approach.

Use of a modified Delphi approach has provided consensus agreement for the standards required for the development of virtual clinics to monitor glaucoma in the UK.

Example of monitoring measurements in a virtual eye clinic using 'big data'.

Using 'big data' collected in the standard glaucoma care service, we found that patients attending a GMS have equivalent outcomes on the VF test.

Applanation tonometry: interobserver and prism agreement using the reusable Goldmann applanation prism and the Tonosafe disposable prism.

There is an acceptable agreement between IOP measurements made with the reusable Goldmann tonometer prism and the disposable Tonosafe prism.

Interobserver agreement using Goldmann applanation tonometry and dynamic contour tonometry: comparing ophthalmologists, nurses and technicians.

Ophthalmologists show good levels of agreement with each other when using GAT, while technicians/nursing staff show better agreement when using the DCT.