Diabetic Retinopathy Screening and Monitoring of Early Stage Disease in Australian General Practice: Tackling Preventable Blindness within a Chronic Care Model

Table 3

Frequency (percentage) of monitoring mild-moderate DR achieved.

RRMA scores; 1 = metropolitan; 2 = other metropolitan; 3 = large rural centre	Patients screened		DR		Follow-up recorded
	(screening outcome recorded)		(mild-mod.)		≤12 months
	(%)		(%)		(%)
4 = small rural centre; 5 = other rural centre	Intervention	Control	Intervention	Control	Intervention	Control
1	173 (100)	40 (22)	9 (5)	3 (8)	9 (100)	1 (33)
4	79 (100)	69 (53)	7 (9)	15 (22)	7 (100)	4 (27)
1	78 (100)	24 (30)	8 (10)	3 (13)	8 (100)	0
3	70 (100)	33 (31)	7 (10)	7 (21)	5 (71)	4 (57)
3	46 (100)	27 (36)	8 (17)	3 (11)	8 (100)	0

Average time to follow-up rescreen in the control practices = 2.5–3 years as indicated in review of diabetes registers.