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Screening for diabetes uneven across Denmark, study finds
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About 43% of Danish people with diabetes live in a county with no systematic screening in place, Danish researchers found. The researchers projected that if all counties planning to implement screening programs did so, the proportion of patients without access to screening would drop to 17%.
Anja Bech Hansen and Mads Varis Nis Andersen distributed a questionnaire in 2002 to ophthalmology services in all counties in Denmark to determine the status of diabetic retinopathy screening practices and procedures. Of the 15 counties in the country, six reported having systematic screening procedures in place. The authors defined systematic screening as including organized screening and database maintenance.
Three counties reported having plans for systematic screening, two reported unspecified plans for systematic screening, and four counties reported having no plans.
The study is published in Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica.