Abstract

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of acquired blindness among working-age adults. Although the risk of vision loss can be reduced significantly through early diagnosis of DR, fewer than half of diabetic patients follow eye screening guidelines. This paper demonstrates a two-level modeling approach to compare a DR telescreening (DRTS) program providing screening at the primary-care setting to the traditional ophthalmologist-based screening strategy in a chiefly Hispanic community. The goal is to determine whether DRTS is at least as effective and cost-effective as the traditional screening strategy from both the societal and service perpectives. Evaluation and comparison of the different strategies are done at the societal level using a Markov simulation that embeds the screening model in a natural disease progression model and simulates the effect and costs of DR screening on target cohorts …

Metadata

publication

IIE Annual Conference. Proceedings, 1, 2010

year

2010

publication date

2010

authors

Irene Vidyanti, Shinyi Wu, Carl Kesselman

link

https://search.proquest.com/openview/4c19d81b1c330efde1f9365b196597c6/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=51908

journal

IISE Annual Conference. Proceedings

pages

1

publisher

Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)