Joshua H. Uhr|Kapil Mishra|Wei Chen|Albert Y. Wu
Awareness and Knowledge of Emergent Ophthalmic Disease Among Patients in an Internal Medicine Clinic
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai|Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai|Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai|Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
h3importanceh3 emergent ophthalmic disease lead permanent visual impairment blindness medical attention delayed awareness knowledge emergent ophthalmic disease may important early medical presentation maximization visual prognosis cases h3objectiveh3 assess public awareness knowledge 4 emergent ophthalmic diseases h3design setting participantsh3 crosssectional study conducted june 1 july 30 2015 waiting rooms outpatient internal medicine resident clinic mount sinai hospital written survey administered evaluate awareness knowledge retinal detachment acute angleclosure glaucoma giant cell arteritis central retinal artery occlusion awareness disease assessed whether participants knew diseases yes knowledge evaluated responses 3 questions disease including 1 question basic pathophysiologic features 1 question basic symptoms 1 question basic treatment options englishspeaking patients physically cognitively able fill survey without assistance considered eligible offered opportunity participate times survey distribution 237 completed survey demographic information including age sex race income educational level collected data assessed august 1 7 2015 h3main outcomes measuresh3 awareness ophthalmic disease determined proportion respondents answered yes knowledge determined proportion aware respondents answered knowledge questions correctly h3resultsh3 two hundred thirtyseven patients 227 gave complete demographic information 76 men 335 151 women 665 mean sd age 513 168 years completed survey awareness diseases studied low 61 220 respondents 277 95 ci 218336 aware retinal detachment 32 219 respondents 146 95 ci 99193 acute angleclosure glaucoma 11 216 respondents 51 95 ci 2280 giant cell arteritis 10 218 respondents 46 95 ci 1874 central retinal artery occlusion respondents aware knowledgeable ranged 29 199 146 pathophysiologic features retinal detachment 1 208 05 symptoms 2 203 10 treatment giant cell arteritis 1 193 05 pathophysiologic features central retinal artery occlusion h3conclusions relevanceh3 levels awareness knowledge emergent ophthalmic diseases low results indicate need educate public acutely visionthreatening entities ensure early medical presentation achieve best possible visual prognosis preserve quality life