Uptake of Telemedicine System Trial in Rual Canton

Sun Yat-sen University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes Retinopathy; Diabetes Macular Edema

Treatments: Device: 90 D; Device: fundus camera and grader

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01832077

ZOC-WDF-Telemedicine

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the impact of telemedicine system in rural hospitals for diagnosis and treatment of Diabetes retinopathy and Diabetes macular edema.

Full description

Telemedicine system mainly contains a comprehensive eye examination electric-records (E-record), which can transfer the fundus pictures from rural hospitals to professional Graders (golden standard for a diagnose of Diabetes Retinopathy (DR) and Diabetes Macular Edema(DME)). In Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center (ZOC). By this system, the investigators can evaluate the capacity of rural eye doctors about the diagnosis of DR/DME, and give proper suggestions for the treatment and revisit plan.

Enrollment: 5,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age > 40y, diagnosed (Diabetes Retinopathy) DR,10% normal patients

Exclusion criteria

• unconsciousness, history of diabetic ketoacidosis, cardiac insufficiency, Severe atrioventricular block, hepatic insufficiency , allergic to mydriatic

Trial design

5,000 participants in 2 patient groups

rural doctor

Description:

examine patient's fundus by 90D fundus pre-set lens

Treatment:

Device: 90 D

grader

Description:

grade fundus pictures in ZOC

Treatment:

Device: fundus camera and grader