ArticleOphthalmology2024
Eye Care in Federally Qualified Health Centers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Large language models for primary care ophthalmic education: a systematic review.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Michigan Screening and Intervention for Glaucoma and Eye Health through Telemedicine Program: Impact on Vision, Follow-up, and Costs.Ophthalmology · 2025Trial
- "I want to see everything": A community-based participatory research framework to identify eye health and vision care knowledge, perceptions, values, and barriers.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2026Article
- Design of a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial for Comparing the Michigan Screening and Intervention for Glaucoma and Eye Health and Telemedicine Protocol with Usual Care for Disease Detection.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Article
- Alabama Screening and Intervention for Glaucoma and Eye Health Through Telemedicine (AL-SIGHT): The Impact of Financial Incentives on Health Care Engagement Following Telemedicine-Based Vision Screening.Current eye research · 2025Article
- Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Among Federally Qualified Health Center Patients Using Point-of-Care AI: DRES-POCAI: A Trial Protocol.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Perspectives on eye care access and telemedicine-based glaucoma screening among Latine individuals with limited English proficiency.AJO international · 2025Article
- Time spent on eye disease screening, optical care, and care navigation within a federally qualified health center.AJO international · 2025Article
- Integrating eye care into Community Health Centers: a framework for advancing vision equity in underserved communities.Frontiers in health services · 2025Article
- Access to vision care for children from immigrant and nonimmigrant households: evidence from the National Survey of Children's Health 2018-2019.Journal of AAPOS : the official publication of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus · 2024Article
- Potential Gaps in Eye Care Based on Evaluation of Federally Qualified Health Centers.JAMA ophthalmology · 2024Article
- The Case for Primary Eye Care Integration in Community Health Centers.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Abstract
purposeTo assess changes in vision care availability at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) between 2017 and 2021 and whether neighborhood-level demographic social risk factors (SRFs) associated with eye care services provided by FQHCs.
designSecondary data analysis of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) data and 2017-2021 American Community Survey (ACS).
participantsFederally Qualified Health Centers.
methodsPatient and neighborhood characteristics for SRFs were summarized. Differences in FQHCs providing and not providing vision care were compared via Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney tests for continuous measures and chi-square tests for categorical measures. Logistic regression models were used to test the associations between neighborhood measures and FQHCs providing vision care, adjusted for patient characteristics.
main outcome measuresOdds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for neighborhood-level predictors of FQHCs providing vision care services.
resultsOverall, 28.5% of FQHCs (n = 375/1318) provided vision care in 2017 versus 32% (n = 435/1362) in 2021 with some increases and decreases in both the number of FQHCs and those with and without vision services. Only 2.6% of people who accessed FQHC services received eye care in 2021. Among the 435 FQHCs that provided vision care in 2021, 27.1% (n = 118) had added vision services between 2017 and 2021, 71.5% (n = 311) had been offering vision services since at least 2017, and 1.4% (n = 6) were newly established. FQHCs providing vision care in 2021 were more likely to be in neighborhoods with a higher percentage of Hispanic/Latino individuals (OR, 1.08, 95% CI, 1.02-1.14, P = 0.0094), Medicaid-insured individuals (OR, 1.08, 95% CI, 1.02-1.14, P = 0.0120), and no car households (OR, 1.07, 95% CI, 1.01-1.13, P = 0.0142). However, FQHCs with vision care, compared to FQHCs without vision care, served a lower percentage of Hispanic/Latino individuals (27.2% vs. 33.9%, P = 0.0007), Medicaid-insured patients (42.8% vs. 46.8%, P < 0.0001), and patients living at or below 100% of the federal poverty line (61.3% vs. 66.3%, P < 0.0001).
conclusionsVision care services are available at a few FQHCs, localized to a few states. Expanding eye care access at FQHCs would meet patients where they seek care to mitigate vision loss to underserved communities. FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE(S): Proprietary or commercial disclosure may be found after the references.
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