ArticleCogent medicine2019
Barriers to eye care among participants of a mobile eye clinic.
Article in Cogent medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Mobile Eye Units in the United States and Canada: A Narrative Review of Structures, Services and Challenges.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Review
- Ease of Use and Acceptability of an at-Home Vision Screening Kit in a Primarily Non-English Speaking, Underserved Population.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Article
- An Exploratory-Descriptive Qualitative Study on Accessing Eye Health Services at the Community Level in the Gamo and Gofa Zones, Southern Ethiopia.Health science reports · 2024Article
- Barriers to Eye Care for Adults in the United States and Solutions for It: A Literature Review.Cureus · 2024Review
- Risk Factors and Outcomes of Delayed Presentation of Diabetic Retinopathy Patients to a County Hospital.Translational vision science & technology · 2023Article
- Effect of a Patient Navigator Program to Address Barriers to Eye Care at an Academic Ophthalmology Practice.Journal of academic ophthalmology (2017) · 2023Article
- Characteristics Associated with Barriers to Eye Care: A Cross-Sectional Survey at a Free Vision Screening Event.Ophthalmic research · 2023Article
- Inequities and Research Gaps in Ophthalmology: A Scoping Review.JAMA ophthalmology · 2023Article
- A seven-year analysis of the role and impact of a free community eye clinic.BMC medical education · 2021Article
- Eye Care Utilization among Older Subjects with Visual Impairment in Northwest Ethiopia.Journal of ophthalmic & vision researchArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
purposeBarriers to health care present complex challenges to improving eye health in the U.S., yet few studies have quantitatively measured the impact of these barriers. This study investigated the time elapsed since a person's most recent eye examination (TLEE) as a measure of barriers to eye care.
methodsParticipants (N=1699) from mobile clinic vision health screenings completed demographic and subjective visual function questionnaires, and then underwent comprehensive eye exams. Associations between demographics, subjective visual function, and visual acuity were analyzed with respect to TLEE.
resultsMany Hispanic (34.9%) and uninsured (28.6%) participants had no previous eye exam. Although most Caucasians had a previous eye exam, 40.2% did not have an exam in the previous four years. The majority of participants with diabetes were non-compliant with recommendations of annual eye examinations.
conclusionThese results describe barriers that are specific to subpopulations, providing useful information for efforts to improve eye care access.
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.