title: [Possibilities of diagnosis and treatment of eye disease by general practitioners].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Kliniki Okulistyki Instytutu Romnik-Centrum Zdrowia Dziecka w Warszawie.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Prost
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Futyma
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000191:economics / Q000628:therapy*; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans