Impact on patient management of non-mydriatic fundus photography compared to direct ophthalmoscopy in a regional Australian emergency department.

Hamish P Dunn Samuel D BrowningDavid ThomsonWilliam B Yates Peter J McCluskey Lisa J KeayAndrew J WhiteClare L Fraser

Published in: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA (2021)

The addition of NMFP images can significantly impact the management of ED patients requiring fundus examination, facilitating expedited and optimised patient care. NMFP improves ECs diagnostic acumen for fundus pathology over DO examination and telehealth specialist review is important for diagnostic accuracy. There is a clinically important prevalence of fundus pathology in this regional ED setting.

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convolutional neural network
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