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Automated perimetry by optometrists in patients at low risk of glaucoma
  1. MARGARET R DAYAN,
  2. KEVIN GALES,
  3. PHILIP G GRIFFITHS
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4W
  1. Mr P G Griffiths.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.82.10.1220b

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    Editor,—The Royal College of Optometrists guidelines 19971 suggest routine eye tests include “visual field assessment on all relevant patients, especially those at risk of glaucoma (this includes all patients over age 40 years)”. It has been our clinical impression that many optometrists now routinely perform automated perimetry on all patients over the age of 40 years, identifying more false positives than treatable pathology.

    We prospectively studied all asymptomatic patients referred from an optometrist with abnormal …

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