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Glaucoma Clinical Care Pathway and Dataset
The DOAS Glaucoma Clinical Care Pathway and Dataset have been formally approved by all relevant professional bodies.
Introduction
The Glaucoma Clinical Care Pathway focused on the clinical care that clinical teams provide for patients with glaucoma (primary open angle glaucoma-POAG; normal tension glaucoma-NTG; ocular hypertension-OHT; and POAG/NTG suspects).
It was about:
- “what we do” when a person first presents to the health service
- “what we do” to make a diagnosis of glaucoma (POAG, NTG, OHT and POAG/NTG suspects)
- “what we do” for treating, monitoring response to treatment and for monitoring disease progression
The Glaucoma Clinical Dataset focused on clinical information i.e. - “what information clinicians need” - in order to manage patients with glaucoma i.e. what do we need to know about a patient so that we can provide the appropriate management (“to do what we need to do”) for that person? It represented an abstract of all the data that is usually captured during the routine care of a glaucoma patient.
Both the Care Pathway and Dataset are based on existing sources of good clinical practice from –
- Professional body guidance - Royal College of Ophthalmologists, European Glaucoma Society, American Academy of Ophthalmology
- Protocols and guidelines in use by glaucoma specialists and clinical teams across the country
- Existing ophthalmic information systems
- Input from Patient Focus Groups
- Multi-disciplinary national consultation
The Royal College of Ophthalmologists, College of Optometrists, Association of Optometrists, Royal College of Nursing, and the Royal College of General Practitioners, have all collaborated and contributed to the development of the Glaucoma Clinical Care Pathway and Clinical Dataset, which will ultimately inform the development of the NHS Care Record.
You can browse the pathway and dataset on-line www.doasglaucoma.org/pathway/startpoint1.1.htm
or there is a printer-friendly downloadable version
Explanatory terms for sources used and grades of evidence: For further details please click on link here
