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AAO and ASCRS set guidelines on postop co-management, transfer of care
The American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery have issued a joint position paper with guidelines on co-management and transfer of care after ophthalmic surgery.“Co-management is a relationship between an operating ophthalmologist and a non-operating practitioner for shared responsibility in the postoperative care when the patient consents to multiple providers, the services being performed are within the providers’ respective scope of practice and there is agreement between the providers to share patient care,” the paper said. “Transfer of care occurs when there is complete (Read more...)