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. 2022 Jan;36(1):12-14.
doi: 10.1038/s41433-021-01774-w. Epub 2021 Sep 28.

Reassurance on false negatives in the Manchester COVID19 Urgent Eyecare Service (CUES)

Emma Williams  1 , Wendy Craven  2 , Helen Wilson  1 , Felipe Dhawahir-Scala  1 , Matthew Jinkinson  2   3 , William D Newman  1 , Robert A Harper  4   5
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Reassurance on false negatives in the Manchester COVID19 Urgent Eyecare Service (CUES)

Emma Williams et al. Eye (Lond). 2022 Jan.
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Conflict of interest statement

M.J. is Clinical Director and W.C. is Clinical Governance Lead at Primary Eyecare Services, holder of the contract with Manchester CCG in relation to CUES and other primary care optometry delivered services.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1. Flowchart for primary care CUES cases in Manchester and their subsequent management.
The proportion of potential false-negative cases we consider is seen within the context of all non-referred CUES episodes (871) versus the total number of episodes seen within the service in the evaluation timeline.
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