Prevent,curtail and mitigate ocular injuries: Proposal for designing an eye injury registry model for the Indian Armed Forces |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Professor & Head (Ophthalmology), Military Hospital, Jalandhar, India;2. Assistant Professor (Ophthalmology), Command Hospital (Western Command), Chandimandir, India;3. Professor (Ophthalmology), Command Hospital (Western Command), Chandimandir, India;4. Consultant (Ophthalmology), TC Eye Centre, Lucknow, India;5. Professor (Ophthalmology), Command Hospital (Eastern Command), Kolkata, India;1. Department of Surgery, Tripler Army Medical Center, TAMC, HI;2. Department of Clinical Investigation, Tripler Army Medical Center, TAMC, HI;3. Department of Pediatrics, Tripler Army Medical Center, TAMC, HI;4. Department of Surgery, Children''s National Medical Center, Annapolis, MD;1. CHU de Caen, Department of Ophthalmology, Caen, France;2. Université Caen Normandie, Medical School, Caen, France;3. Médecine Interne et Maladies Infectieuses, CHU de Poitiers, Poitiers, France;4. Université Droit et Santé Lille 2, Lille, France;5. Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium;6. Centre Ophtalmologique du Pays des Olonnes, Olonne-sur-Mer, France;7. INSERM, U 1075 COMETE, Pôle de formation et de recherche en santé, Caen, France;1. Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland;2. Foundation of Research and Science Development, Warsaw, Poland;3. Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland;4. Department of Transplantation Medicine and Nephrology, Transplantation Institute, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland;1. Senior Advisor (Medicine & Nephrology), Army Hospital (R&R), Delhi Cantt, India;2. Medical Officer, MS Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore, India;3. Resident (Nephrology), Army Hospital (R&R), Delhi Cantt, India |
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| Abstract: | This article aims to propose a design for Eye Injury Registry (EIR) model for Indian Armed Forces, to make ophthalmologists and non-ophthalmologists aware about the existence as well as the usefulness of such a registry. This is a perspective study. The EIR model for Armed Forces was designed based on the relevant sources in PubMed, Scopus and Embase including registries of pioneering countries like United States and Canada. A questionnaire based on the model dimensions was developed (Cronbach's alpha>0.7) and filled by 04 senior ophthalmologists in Armed Forces, all of who had a significant experience in dealing with various types of ocular trauma, to give expert opinions, which were then applied to the proposed model to finalize it. In Armed Forces, a registry and reporting on eye injury along with a systematic collection of standard data on eye injuries will help ophthalmologists in the successful prevention. Such a registry and its large database once formed will permit elaborate epidemiologic investigations, highlighting preventable sources of injury, emerging patterns of trauma in our services, and the best possible treatment protocols to be adopted, for successful outcomes. EIR in Armed Forces can help in the collection of eye injury data, thereby improving the quality-of-care and expansion of prevention strategies for ocular injuries. It is a step to make a truly effective data bank, which will be instrumental in combating such preventable ocular injuries and in turn go a very long way in achieving the final goal of preventing up to 90% of such injuries. |
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| Keywords: | Ocular injury Prevention Eye injury registry Proposal |
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