Table 2.
Mitigation Measures Adopted by Ophthalmic Institutions around the World in May 2021, 18 Months after the First Reported Cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019
| Countries | Ophthalmologists |
Digital Health Solutions |
Outpatients |
Comments | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Face Mask | Gloves | Goggles | Cap | Slit-Lamp Shield | Temperature Screening | Digital Contact Tracing Measures | Vaccination | Virtual Clinic | Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Care | Digital Home Monitoring | Face Mask | Temperature Screening | Digital Contact Tracing Measures | Vaccination | ||
| Asia-Pacific | ||||||||||||||||
| Australia∗ | ||||||||||||||||
| Sydney (Sydney Eye Hospital) | Y | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Sydney (Westmead Hospital) | Y | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | L | N | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Digital home monitoring for IOP only |
| China∗ | ||||||||||||||||
| Beijing (Peking Union Medical College Hospital) | Y | O | N | O | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | Y | Public vaccination only partial |
| Hong Kong (C-MER Dennis Lam & Eye Partners Eye Center) | Y | N | N | N | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | Y | |
| Shenzhen (C-MER [Shenzhen] Dennis Lam Eye Hospital) | Y | N | N | N | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | Y | |
| India‡ | ||||||||||||||||
| Chennai (Sankara Nethralaya) | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | |
| Indonesia† | ||||||||||||||||
| Jakarta (Jakarta Eye Center) | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Israel∗ | ||||||||||||||||
| Tel Aviv (Tel Aviv Medical Center) | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | |
| Japan† | ||||||||||||||||
| Kagoshima (Kagoshima University Hospital) | Y | O | N | N | Y | Y | N | Y | N | N | N | Y | Y | N | Y | |
| Osaka (Osaka University Hospital) | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Tokyo (Tokyo Medical and Dental University) | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | N | N | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | |
| Singapore∗ | ||||||||||||||||
| Singapore (Singapore National Eye Centre) | Y | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | L | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Taiwan† | ||||||||||||||||
| Taoyuan (Chang Gung Memorial Hospital) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Public vaccination not yet started |
| Thailand† | ||||||||||||||||
| Bangkok (Rajavithi Eye Clinic, Rajavithi Hospital) | Y | O | O | O | Y | Y | N | Y | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Europe | ||||||||||||||||
| Denmark‡ | ||||||||||||||||
| Odense (Odense University Hospital) | Y | N | N | N | Y | N | N | Y | N | N | N | Y | N | N | N | Health care workers have been prioritized for vaccination |
| Germany† | ||||||||||||||||
| Heidelberg (Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University) | Y | N | N | N | Y | N | N | Y | N | Y | N | Y | N | N | Y | |
| Italy† | ||||||||||||||||
| Forlì (Ospedali Privati Forlì “Villa Igea”) | Y | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Spain† | ||||||||||||||||
| Barcelona (Institut Clinic de Oftalmologia, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona) | Y | N | N | N | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | N | Y | N | N | Y | Public vaccination only partial |
| United Kingdom† | ||||||||||||||||
| Cambridge (Addenbrooke's Hospital) | Y | Y | N | N | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | N | Y | N | Y | Y | |
| Liverpool (St. Paul's Eye Unit) | Y | Y | N | N | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | N | Y | Y | |
| London (Moorfields Eye Hospital) | Y | N | N | N | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| United States of America† | ||||||||||||||||
| Atlanta, GA (Emory Eye Center) | Y | N | Y | N | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | Y | |
| Boston, MA (Massachusetts Eye and Ear) | Y | N | Y | N | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | |
| Cleveland, OH (Cleveland Clinic) | Y | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Durham, NC (Duke Eye Center) | Y | O | O | O | Y | N | N | Y | N | N | N | Y | N | N | Y | |
| Los Angeles, CA (USC Roski Eye Institute) | Y | Y | N | N | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Miami, FL (Bascom Palmer Eye Institute) | Y | N | N | N | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | N | N | Y | |
| Milwaukee, WI (The Eye Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin) | Y | N | N | N | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | Y | |
| Omaha, NE (Truhlsen Eye Institute) | Y | N | N | N | Y | Y | N | Y | N | N | N | Y | Y | N | Y | |
| Palo Alto, CA (Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine) | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Philadelphia, PA (Wills Eye Hospital) | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | |
IOP = intraocular pressure; L = limited; N = no; O = optional; USC = University of Southern California; Y = yes.
Values in boldface indicate a change from 2020 practice. Mitigation measures and practice patterns are specific to the ophthalmic institutions listed in this table and are not representative of other ophthalmic institutes in the respective cities or countries.
Rows for each country are coded based on the number of new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases reported over 7 days per 100 000 population from the World Health Organization COVID-19 Dashboard (accessed on May 23, 2021) into
low-risk (< 10),
moderate risk (10–<100), and
high-risk (≥100) categories.