Comanagement
Mastering OD-to-OD Referrals
Here’s how to build lasting relationships with your peers to provide more complete care.
08/15/2021
Keep Glaucoma Care Close to Home
While comanagement is a key component of long-term success, ODs must take on the lion’s share of day-to-day responsibilities for these patients.
07/15/2021
Be a Retina Referral Rock Star
ODs can—and should—take the lead on screening and monitoring routine cases, only sending to specialists the patients that truly need advanced care.
06/15/2021
Take the Fear Out of Comanaging Neuro Cases
Many patients are best served through a partnership between primary care optometrists and appropiate subspecialists.
05/15/2021
The Many Layers of Cornea Comanagement
The urgency of clinical scenarios in this area often has optometrists setting expectations—and the relationship dynamic, too.
04/15/2021
Cataract Comanagement: Relationships Get Results
Learn to cultivate the interprofessional bonds that are at the heart of a productive pairing of OD-MD colleagues.
03/15/2021
How to Succeed in Cataract Comanagement
These tips can help you stay integral to the care team—and it all starts with open communication.
12/15/2019
How Comanagement Reinvented Optometry
A pioneer looks back on the conflicts and conquests that unfolded as ODs and MDs established an uneasy new collaboration.
07/21/2016
Can You Crack These Comanagement Cases?
When encountering a tricky case that might require other doctors, don’t lead from behind—take charge of the comanagement effort.
05/15/2014
Comanaging MIGS: The Birth of the Middle Class
No longer is glaucoma surgery a high-risk, high-reward venture. Safer—but more modestly beneficial—options are emerging. Here’s a look at the OD’s role.
05/15/2014
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