801
Participants
Start Date
May 31, 2014
Primary Completion Date
January 31, 2015
Study Completion Date
March 31, 2015
Tele-medicine
Patients at the diabetes clinics will be subjected to non-mydriatic retinal imaging and the images will be transferred to the eye hospital via internet using a specified software - Aravind Diabetic Retinopathy Evaluation Software (ADRES) that enables a retinal specialist to read and grad the image and send the feedback immediately to the diabetes clinic. Based on the presence or absence of DR the patients will be referred to the eye hospital for detailed retinal examination.
Conventional referral
All eligible patients in the conventional arm will be counselled on the importance of eye screening and will be referred to the eye hospital
Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
OTHER
Aravind Eye Care System
OTHER