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Evaluation of compliance with the EGS guidelines in Spain, using Achievable Benchmarks of Care (ABC®) methodology:
Miguel A Castejón-Cervero1, Rafael Jiménez-Parras, Isabel Fernandez-Arias
1Ophthalmology Department, University Hospital Príncipe de Asturias, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
Purpose:
To evaluate compliance with diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations of the European Glaucoma Society (EGS) for the management of glaucoma in Spain, as determined using the Achievable Benchmarks of Care approach.
Methods:
A panel of 3 experts extracted quality and process-of-care indicators from the EGS guidelines. Investigators from all over the country, representative of Spanish ophthalmologists, were invited to participate in the study, completing a questionnaire on quality indicators (pertaining to the center) and process-of-care indicators (pertaining to all patients) for the first, diagnostic visit (retrospective) and the study visit.
Results:
A total of 495 Spanish ophthalmologists included 5,060 patients with glaucoma or intraocular hypertension. The treatment was initiated with monotherapy in 88.5% of the patients. Overall, the percentage compliance with diagnostic examinations was 84.6% for intraocular pressure measurement, 96.3% for optic nerve head evaluation, 76.6% for visual field evaluation, 29.5% for central corneal thickness evaluation, and 49.3% at the study visit. The benchmark performance was close to 100% for most examinations. Only 32.8% of the centres had a written protocol for the management of the patients with glaucoma, and in these centers the recommendations of the EGS were followed in a higher proportion (p<0.0001) than in the rest.
Conclusions:
The use of local protocols for the management of glaucoma seems to enhance compliance. Benchmark performance was close to 100% in most indicators, suggesting that EGS recommendations are attainable in Spain. The overall performance suggests that certain diagnostic procedures are, in practice, not as widely used as recommended.
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