In short
If glaucoma is recognised late, the patient reads the pressure line and the referral sentence side by side in the eye file. At which number the pressure will count as the disease is not drawn in this text. The lens record in cataract surgery, and the number record after laser, are other events. This article is not tied to them. How many months the late diagnosis will count as is not produced either. The date of the two notes is the date in the file. If the line is empty, the gap is not filled as normal pressure.
Whether pressure was written
In the examination note, a value for intraocular pressure, or the counterpart that it was not measured, is looked for. If a value was written, it is taken as it was written. This page does not draw a threshold above or below the value. If the line is empty, the gap is not filled as normal pressure. If the two eyes are on separate lines, one being full does not complete the other. A later measurement does not stand in for the first empty line. The patient does not join the right and the left eye into a single number. Whichever eye's line is empty, that eye stays empty.
If the name of the measuring device is in the note, the name is read. How the device is used is not recounted. If the note speaks of a drop, the word is not turned into a medicine list. A dose and a medicine name are not written on this page. The drop sentence does not of itself show that the pressure was measured. The measurement line is separate. The drop line is separate. If one is absent, the other is not pasted in its place.
The patient separates the front of the examination slip from the back. Pressure may stand in a small box on the back. If only visual acuity is written on the front, this writing is not a pressure value. If the box is empty, the patient does not write a number in the box. If an old slip in hand and a printout made later conflict, both numbers are left. The new printout is not treated as having filled the empty box on the old slip.
Where the referral sentence stands
If pressure was written and the physician wrote a further eye examination or a repeat measurement, this sentence is separate from the pressure line. If there is no sentence, a referral is not treated as existing. If there is a sentence and no appointment paper, the sentence and the appointment are two documents. If the patient did not go, the not-going is looked for on the line after the referral sentence. It is not said that he did not go when a referral was never written. A note of not-going does not close the earlier empty referral line.
The family physician's referral to the eye clinic is read in that referral's own words. If the referral mentions pressure or glaucoma, the mention stands. If it only says an eye examination, this general word is not completed as a pressure value. If a visual field or the optic nerve head is mentioned in the note, the line that is mentioned is read. How the examination is done is not taught here. The patient keeps the name of the examination that was mentioned, with the date the name appears. If there is no name, the examination is not treated as done.
If the referral is in the note of the same day, the day is read together with the pressure. If the referral is in a later writing, the date of that writing is the basis. While there is no writing, the referral is not completed as if it were added later to the examination note. The note in which the word glaucoma first appears, and the date of the earlier pressure line, are put side by side. If the two are the same day, a late diagnosis is not read from the gap between them. If there are other examinations in between, the pressure line of each is separate. A time that passed empty is not turned into months in this text. The patient does not count the months himself and tie them to a threshold.
A glasses number is not pressure
The number on a glasses prescription does not stand in for intraocular pressure. If the number stands and the pressure line is empty, the gap is not filled with the number. If the pressure stands and the number is on another paper, the two papers do two jobs. If both were written in the same examination note, they are still read as separate lines. One does not build the other's diagnosis. The slip of an optical shop is not a hospital note. The slip may show the measure of the lens. The slip does not write intraocular pressure. The patient does not use the slip as the gap in the hospital record. The slip is kept separately.
If a fundus photograph or a nerve-fibre measurement is in the file, it stands with its own date. If it is not, the absence is not produced from the pressure line. How these papers are interpreted is not taught. If a sentence of interpretation was written in the report, that sentence is taken. If it was not written, an interpretation is not added. If the result line of the report and the measurement page are separate, the patient asks for both. If one has come and the other has not, the name of the one that is missing is written.
Cataract and laser are not this record
What is read in cataract is the measurement and the lens that was placed. What is read in laser eye treatment is the target number before the procedure. Neither is put in the place of the intraocular-pressure line and the referral sentence. Even if these procedures are in the past for the same patient, the glaucoma question is not built from those papers. This text does not repeat those decisions. Surgical consent is not a copy of the pressure line. If the name glaucoma does not appear in the consent, it is not said that it appeared. If it appears, the word that appears is not turned into a measurement value.
The general measure of a diagnosis sits under a wrong diagnosis. A known risk after surgery is not the name of this pressure line. The separation sits under a complication. The definition of care is on the medical malpractice page. This body does not write the definition from the start. A copy of the eye file is requested with the patient file. The Patient Rights Regulation is mentioned as a record the patient may request a copy of. An article and a number of days are not written. Adding a number later to the pressure line, or doing away with the old copy, is not suggested. The old slip in hand is not thrown away.
The two lines that stand side by side in the petition
The patient builds the petition as whether the pressure box is full, and whether there is a referral sentence. The answers to the two questions are not melted in the same sentence. If pressure was written and there is no referral, the absence appears separately. If a referral was written and the pressure is empty, the gap does not close with the referral. If both are empty, the patient does not put the later note in which the name glaucoma first appears in the place of this gap. The date of the later note is the day the name was written. The earlier empty slips are not filled backwards from that day.
If a follow-up appointment stands on the paper in the patient's pocket and is not in the hospital note, the patient keeps both papers. The appointment paper may not carry the pressure value. If it does not, the value is not produced from the appointment. The appointment shows only the day. The day does not change whether the referral sentence is in the hospital note. If there is no sentence in the note, the appointment is not treated as the sentence having been written. If there is a sentence in the note, the day of the appointment may conflict with the day of the sentence. The conflict is not closed.
A later letter of another eye physician is not read as if it changed the number on the first slip. The letter carries its own date. If the name glaucoma appears in the letter, the name is on that date. The empty box of the first slip is not filled with the letter. The patient does not staple the letter as the annex of the first examination. The two envelopes stand separately.
The slips of the two eyes are not mixed
If the pressure box of the right eye is full and the box of the left eye is empty, the patient does not copy the full box onto the empty eye. If the eye separation is not written on the slip and a single number stands, the single number is not completed as the measurement of both eyes. The number stays on the line where it was written. If a later measurement writes both eyes, that measurement is on its own day. The gap of the first slip is not filled with this measurement. The patient makes the eyes separate lines in the petition. A petition that does not separate is read as if there were a single pressure. That reading hides the empty box in the file.
If the family physician's referral says the eye clinic, this general word is not a pressure value. The date of the referral paper may be before or after the date of the eye slip. If it is before, the referral does not of itself fill the gap on the slip. If it is after, the referral is not treated as a measurement having been made on the first slip. The patient keeps the two dates apart. He does not add the optician's slip to this order as pressure. The lens measure on the slip does not show that the referral sentence was written either. The patient keeps the slip only for the glasses matter. The empty box of the eye slip does not close with the slip.
Conclusion
In the eye file, a late diagnosis is read from the date of the pressure line and of the referral sentence. A glasses number and a later surgery paper do not stand in for these two lines. There is no threshold number, no lens record, and no laser target here. The article does not write a decision in the place of the eye file. The frame is on the health law page. If the pressure and referral lines have come out, the frame may be discussed through contact.