Eye and foot checks in patients with diabetes on haemodialysis: Are they done, and who does them?
dc.contributor.author | Mothojakan, NB | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Hussain, S | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | McCafferty, K | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Yaqoob, MM | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Chowdhury, TA | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-07T14:46:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-30 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2017-09-15 | en_US |
dc.date.submitted | 2018-02-19T14:22:04.724Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1948-9358 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 10.4239/wjd.v8.i9.436 | |
dc.identifier.uri | file:///C:/Users/ylw164/Downloads/WJD-8-436.pdf | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/34437 | |
dc.description.abstract | AIM: To determine if retinal and foot checks are carried out on patients with diabetes receiving haemodialysis. METHODS: Eighty-four patients with diabetes receiving haemodialysis were asked if they recalled having eye and foot screening in the last year, and if so, by whom was the check done. RESULTS: Seventy-seven (91.7%) patients recalled having an eye check in the preceding 12 mo. Of these, 52 (67.5%) did so in an ophthalmology clinic, 17 (22%) in retinal screening, three (3.9%) in an optician clinic. Three patients (3.9%) went to both ophthalmology and retinal screening, and two (2.6%) attended an ophthalmology and optician. Seventy (83.3%) patients recalled having a foot check in the preceding 12 mo. Of these, 33 (47.1%) were done by practice nurse, 14 (20%) by a diabetes nurse, 11 (15.7%) by a general practitioner, eight (11.4%) by a chiropodist, and four (5.7%) were each checked by renal nurse, diabetes consultant, junior doctor, or unknown person at a foot clinic. CONCLUSION: Most patients with diabetes on haemodialysis are able to recall having an eye check in the last year, although 8.3% could not. A significant proportion of patients could not recall having a foot check (16.7%) in the last year. This baseline audit suggests that an improvement in the rate of foot screening is important to achieve in patients with diabetes on haemodialysis in our unit. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 436 - 439 | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | World J Diabetes | en_US |
dc.rights | CC BY-NC | |
dc.subject | Diabetes | en_US |
dc.subject | Foot screening | en_US |
dc.subject | Haemodialysis | en_US |
dc.subject | Retinal screening | en_US |
dc.title | Eye and foot checks in patients with diabetes on haemodialysis: Are they done, and who does them? | en_US |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.rights.holder | 2017 The Authors. | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.4239/wjd.v8.i9.436 | en_US |
pubs.author-url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28989570 | en_US |
pubs.issue | 9 | en_US |
pubs.notes | Not known | en_US |
pubs.publication-status | Published | en_US |
pubs.volume | 8 | en_US |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2017-05-30 | en_US |
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