Latest Published Article In Journal Of Optometry : Open Access

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Recently optometry journal published a research article entitled “hoe accurate is previous diagnosis of Cataract” By Paul Varner .

Diagnosis is the foundation of health care. It is the process of identifying and naming an illness, disease, injury, health condition, or other problem by examination of symptoms, physical signs, and test results. Patients seek care based on the assumption that providers can offer correct diagnoses, while treatment and prognosis are not possible without accuracy in its determination. The stigma of misdiagnosis pervades all aspects of health care as providers are expected to be infallible. Of course, humans are not. Misdiagnosis rates consistently run about 10%-15% across most medical specialties [1], and provider over-confidence may be both the source and a barrier to reducing this rate [2,3]. Misdiagnosis can result in mental anguish, delay of care, untold morbidity, and even mortality, the latter of which is fortunately rare through the delivery of eye care. The complex and often nebulous world of patient communication is frequently confounded by busy clinic schedules and unavoidable interruptions, while providers are challenged to meet patient expectations on their terms. However, there are certain key words that patients seem to remember no matter how difficult and distracting the situation. Words fraught with profound psychological connotations like pregnancy, cancer, tumor, stroke, heart attack, Alzheimer’s, autism, blindness - among others - cannot be rescinded once tendered to patients. To this might be added “cataract” a diagnosis frequently mentioned by patients to their eye care providers. Nearly all patients are familiar with this term even if they do not understand the anatomical basis for it. As there is no other treatment available for this condition, laymen immediately correlate this diagnosis with surgery which, in turn, is usually associated with hospitals, general anesthesia, and morbidity in general. Like other significant diagnoses, ophthalmic patients do not “forget” once they have been told they have “the beginning of cataracts.”

 

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