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Europe increasingly involved in setting up systematic screening programs for diabetes
Since the 2005 Liverpool Declaration, Europe has made significant progress toward implementation of systematic national screening programs to reduce diabetes-related visual impairment. However, barriers still remain in countries with predominantly private, insurance-based health care systems or countries that lack human and financial resources, Simon Harding, FRCS, FRCOphth, MD, chair professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at the University of Liverpool and St. Paul’s Eye Unit, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, United Kingdom, said.The Liverpool Declaration was the result of a consensus conference, gathering official national representatives of 29 European countries, invited experts and (Read more...)