Assuring Ophthalmologic Follow up

Dartmouth Health

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Vision Screening; Amblyopia

Treatments: Other: Active scheduling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04959422

STUDY02000101

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to quantify the improvement in completed ophthalmology referrals and quantify the number of children identified and treated for amblyopia or pre amblyopic strabismus resulting from the implementation of a new referral and tracking system.

Full description

Children who fail instrument vision screens at Dartmouth Hitchcock (D-H) Community Group Practice (CGP) Pediatric Clinics will be scheduled at a community vision specialist office before departure from the Pediatric clinic. If the patient does not attend the appointment (a no show) at the vision specialist office , this will be tracked and the patient will be rescheduled.

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 6 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All pediatrics patients without pre-existing vision problems undergoing instrument vision screening at DH Pediatric CGP Clinics in at ages 2,3,4,5, and 6 years of age.

Exclusion criteria

• All pediatric patients with pre-existing eye problems that would cause them to be excluded from the study.
• All patients of parents who choose to go to an eyecare provider other than the one participating in the study (as we would be unable to make appointments or track appointments).
• All patients of parents who refuse to make an appointment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 1 patient group

Active scheduling

Experimental group

Description:

Children who fail instrument vision screens will be scheduled at a community vision specialist office before departure from clinic and all no shows at the vision specialist office will be tracked and rescheduled.

Treatment:

Other: Active scheduling