Mehal Rathore

Jul 13, 2024 | bmjopen.bmj.com | Mehal Rathore |Peter Campbell |David Edgar |Sonali Dave

All participants believed that, practical challenges notwithstanding, home-monitoring could improve healthcare by augmenting existing, in-person appointments:In the gaps between appointments…not instead of…It’s not taking over the appointment. - AMD P1As presented later (see Theme 5) participants were keen to stress that home-monitoring ought not replace in-person clinical appointments altogether.

May 27, 2024 | nature.com | Mehal Rathore |David Crabb

AbstractCataract waiting lists are growing globally. Pragmatic, cost-effective methods are required to prioritise the most urgent cases. Here we investigate the feasibility of using a third-party pen-and-paper contrast sensitivity, CS, test (SpotChecksTM), delivered by mail, and performed by patients at home unsupervised, to flag eyes requiring surgery. Pen-and-paper CS tests were mailed to 233 people waiting for a cataract assessment, along with a prepaid return envelope (cross-sectional study).

May 10, 2023 | nature.com | Mehal Rathore

AbstractBackground/ObjectivesTo examine the association between multiple deprivation with late diagnosis and rapid worsening of glaucoma in patients in English hospital eye services (HES). Methods602,439 visual fields (VFs) were extracted from five regionally different glaucoma clinics in England. Mean Deviation (MD) worse than −12 dB was used as a surrogate definition for advanced VF loss at diagnosis in patients with ≥2 reliable VF records.