JAMA ophthalmologyPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.5605
Aishah Ahmed, Muhammad Ali, Chen Dun, Cindy X Cai, Martin A Makary, Fasika A Woreta
{"title":"Geographic Distribution of US Ophthalmic Surgical Subspecialists.","authors":"Aishah Ahmed, Muhammad Ali, Chen Dun, Cindy X Cai, Martin A Makary, Fasika A Woreta","doi":"10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.5605","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.5605","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>While urban counties maintain higher densities of ophthalmologists than rural counties, the geographic distribution of ophthalmic surgical subspecialists has not yet been elucidated. A potential workforce discrepancy may impact the burden of care faced by rural surgeons.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To assess the geographic distribution of the ophthalmic subspecialist surgeon workforce and evaluate factors associated with practicing in rural areas.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This cross-sectional population-based study of Medicare patients and surgeons performing subspecialized procedures took place from 2012 through 2022. Medicare Fee-for-Service claims were analyzed in 2023 for patients 65 years or older who underwent subspecialized ophthalmic procedures between 2012 and 2022 using Current Procedural Terminology codes (n = 1 619 043). Surgeons were defined as a subspecialist based on Current Procedural Terminology codes, indicating performance of at least 1 subspecialty procedure from the following subspecialties: cornea, glaucoma, oculoplastic, retina, or strabismus (n = 13 526).</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>The primary outcome was the population density of practice for subspecialist surgeons and residence for patients (rural or urban). The secondary outcomes were the characteristics associated with rural practice.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 13 526 ophthalmic surgical subspecialists, 9823 were male (72.6%), 3235 were female (26.8%), and 4484 (33.2%) practiced in the South. There were 2540 cornea subspecialists (18.5%), 3676 glaucoma subspecialists (26.8%), 1951 oculoplastic subspecialists (14.2%), 4123 retina subspecialists (30.0%), and 1236 strabismus subspecialists (9.0%). Across subspecialties, a higher proportion of patients (17.4%; 95% CI, 16.9%-17.9%) resided in rural areas relative to surgeons (5.6%; 95% CI, 5.3%-5.9%) with differences ranging from 6.2% to 14.8% across subspecialities. Female surgeons (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 0.63; 95% CI, 0.51-0.79; P < .001), surgeons in the Northeast (aOR, 0.62; 95% CI, 0.48-0.78; P < .001), surgeons in the West (aOR, 0.63; 95% CI, 0.50-0.79; P < .001), and recent graduates relative to those who graduated 11 to 20 years ago (aOR, 1.66; 95% CI, 1.25-2.21; P < .001), 21 to 30 years ago (aOR, 1.83; 95% CI, 1.38-2.42; P < .001), or 31 years ago or longer (aOR, 1.43; 95% CI, 1.08-1.90; P = .013), were less likely to practice rurally.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>This cross-sectional study between 2012 and 2022 identified higher proportions of rural patients compared with rural surgeons. Percentages of rural surgeons declined over time, with female surgeons and recent medical school graduates less likely to practice rurally. This suggests a disparity in the number of rural subspecialist surgeons available to serve rural patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":14518,"journal":{"name":"JAMA ophthalmology","volume":" ","pages":"117-124"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11843353/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142914759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA ophthalmologyPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.6086
Khalid El-Jack, Dolly Ann Padovani-Claudio, Basil K Williams
{"title":"Addressing Representation in Ophthalmology Training.","authors":"Khalid El-Jack, Dolly Ann Padovani-Claudio, Basil K Williams","doi":"10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.6086","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.6086","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14518,"journal":{"name":"JAMA ophthalmology","volume":" ","pages":"152-154"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143005412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA ophthalmologyPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2025-02-20DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.5707
Yanyan Zhang, Yan Gong, Quanyong Yi
{"title":"Beaded Bubbles in the Eye After Vitrectomy and Gas Fill.","authors":"Yanyan Zhang, Yan Gong, Quanyong Yi","doi":"10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.5707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.5707","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14518,"journal":{"name":"JAMA ophthalmology","volume":"143 2","pages":"e245707"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143458122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA ophthalmologyPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.5597
Justin J Grassmeyer, Alison H Skalet, Benjamin K Young
{"title":"Pediatric Patient Referred for an Optic Nerve Mass.","authors":"Justin J Grassmeyer, Alison H Skalet, Benjamin K Young","doi":"10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.5597","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.5597","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14518,"journal":{"name":"JAMA ophthalmology","volume":" ","pages":"182-183"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142914762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA ophthalmologyPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.5365
Juan Marcos Gonzalez Sepulveda, Jui-Chen Yang, Alicja Mastylak, Elaine M Wells-Gray, Landon Grace, Stephen Fransen
{"title":"Quantifying Patient Preferences and Expectations About Diabetic Retinopathy Monitoring.","authors":"Juan Marcos Gonzalez Sepulveda, Jui-Chen Yang, Alicja Mastylak, Elaine M Wells-Gray, Landon Grace, Stephen Fransen","doi":"10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.5365","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.5365","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of blindness among adults in the US. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends annual DR monitoring for all individuals with diabetes, yet monitoring rates remain below 70%.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To evaluate how patient preferences and expectations about DR monitoring are associated with expected monitoring adherence behaviors.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>In this survey study, a web-enabled survey instrument was developed and implemented with a discrete-choice experiment to characterize patient preferences for outcomes of DR monitoring and graded-pair questions to quantify patients' expectations about the impact of DR monitoring on blindness risk. The survey was conducted through ResearchMatch, a US National Institutes of Health-developed online platform, among adults with self-reported, physician-diagnosed diabetes. Recruitment occurred between September 15, 2023, and October, 17, 2023, and data analysis occurred between October 2023 and December 2023. Results from the 2 tasks were combined to derive patients' expected monitoring behavior following a recently proposed treatment adherence framework. The survey instrument was pretested in cognitive interviews and validated for the purposes of this study.</p><p><strong>Exposure: </strong>Survey-based discrete-choice experiment and graded-pair questions.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>Participants' relative preferences for DR-related blindness risk reductions, monitoring time, and out-of-pocket monitoring costs were quantified, as well as the degree to which participants expected adherence to monitoring to affect the risk of blindness. By combining how much participants valued specific reductions in blindness risk (relative to monitoring costs) and their expected risk reduction through monitoring, the rate at which patients would maximize the benefit of monitoring appointments was assessed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The survey was completed satisfactorily by 304 respondents of 542 individuals invited to participate. Mean (SD) respondent age was 40.5 (11.2) years, and 169 respondents (56.1%) were female. Reductions in blindness risk were valuable to participants. Participants required a 3.87 (95% CI, 1.91-5.88) percentage-point reduction in 5-year blindness risk to be fully adherent to an annual 53-minute monitoring visit with a $26 co-payment, but respondents expected DR monitoring to reduce the 5-year blindness risk by 0.71 (95% CI, 0.21-1.28) percentage points.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>In this online survey study among adults with diabetes, measurement of patient preferences and expectations about DR monitoring with properly validated instruments offered an opportunity to assess patient health behaviors. The association between preferences and monitoring expectations was generally consistent with monitoring no","PeriodicalId":14518,"journal":{"name":"JAMA ophthalmology","volume":" ","pages":"91-98"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11842207/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142854120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA ophthalmologyPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2025-02-20DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.5706
Yuan Chang, Tao Zhang, Xiaowei Liu
{"title":"Corneal Recovery After Neurotization for Neurotrophic Keratopathy.","authors":"Yuan Chang, Tao Zhang, Xiaowei Liu","doi":"10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.5706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.5706","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14518,"journal":{"name":"JAMA ophthalmology","volume":"143 2","pages":"e245706"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143457527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}