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New Model of Care for Diabetic Retinopathy in Indigenous Australians
The integrated Diabetes Education and diabetic Eye disease Screening [iDEES] project is a novel model of camera-based diabetic retinopathy screening and diabetes education consultation offered to all patients diagnosed with diabetes attending participating Indigenous primary health care services and a hospital-based endocrinology clinic in regional and metropolitan Victoria.
Relevant Publications
Health‐related behaviours in a remote Indigenous population with Type 2 diabetes: a Central Australian primary care survey in the Telehealth Eye and Associated Medical Services Network [TEAMSnet] project.
2019 Diabetic Medicine
10.1111/dme.14099
Integrating diabetic retinopathy screening within diabetes education services in Australia's diabetes and indigenous primary care clinics.
2019 Internal Medicine Journal
10.1111/imj.14309
Diabetic retinopathy in a remote Indigenous primary healthcare population: a Central Australian diabetic retinopathy screening study in the Telehealth Eye and Associated Medical Services Network project.
2018 Diabetic Medicine
10.1111/dme.13596
An evaluation of the telehealth facilitation of diabetes and cardiovascular care in remote Australian Indigenous communities: - protocol for the telehealth eye and associated medical services network [TEAMSnet] project, a pre-post study design.
2017 BMC Health Serv Res
10.1186/s12913-016-1967-4