[Possibilities of diagnosis and treatment of eye disease by general practitioners].
OBJECTIVE
To analyse possibilities of diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases by practitioner.


METHODS
The number and diagnosis profile of patients treated in average municipal out-patient ward was calculated and possibilities of their treatment by general practitioner were analysed.


RESULTS
In 87.4% of eye-patients general practitioner cannot diagnose and treat the disease and he has to send them to an eye-doctor.


CONCLUSIONS
The system that eye-patient cannot check-in directly to an eye-doctor is more costly because general practitioners can diagnose and treat only small number of these patients. Therefore nearly every patient has to be consulted be eye-specialist, which increases the costs of treatment because patient has to be seen by two doctors.
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Kliniki Okulistyki Instytutu Romnik-Centrum Zdrowia Dziecka w Warszawie.
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D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000191:economics / Q000628:therapy*; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans