Limited Time from the Diabetes Patients' Perspective: Need for Conversation with the Eye Specialist

作者：Marahrens Lydia; Ziemssen Focke^*; Fritsche Andreas; Ziemssen Tjalf; Kern Raimar; Martus Peter; Roeck Daniel

来源：Ophthalmologica, 2016, 236(3): 154-158.

DOI：10.1159/000450708

• Diabetic retinopathy
• Physician time
• Counselling
• Patient preferences

Purpose: Facing the lack of time, busy retina consultants should be aware of how the patients would prefer that time is spent and whether they wish the specialist to talk more at the expense of other medical activities. Methods: 810 persons with diabetes were asked to divide the time of 10 min between examination, consultation and treatment when envisioning a real-life scenario of diabetic retinopathy (NCT02311504). Results: With the increasing duration of diabetes, patients wanted significantly more time for diagnostics (p = 0.028), while age was found to be associated with less time for treatment (p = 0.009). Female subjects tended to prefer only little more time for talking (p = 0.051) in comparison with males, who slightly favored therapy (p = 0.025). Conclusions: The large majority recognized the need for diagnostics in their allocation of time. If individual patients are confronted with the health care perspective of time constraints, this might improve the understanding of prioritization.

• 出版日期2016