Abstract
Requests for ophthalmologic evaluation for ocular symptoms are customary in medicine. Whether they are outpatient referrals (from optometrists,1 ophthalmologists,1 or other physicians1–3), inpatient consultations,4 or emergency referrals,1,4 it is convention for the requesting health care professional to specify a suspected diagnosis or to ask a clinical question in the request. However, the literature indicates limited reports examining the diagnostic accuracy of referring healthcare providers.
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