NCT07923292Recruiting
To Investigate the Feasibility and Acceptability of Trained Non-medical Professionals Performing Laser Treatment for Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy (PDR), and the Potential Impact on Service Capacity. Assess Feasibility of Conducting a Full Trial Comparing Trained ECPs With Ophthalmologists
Assessing the Viability of Non-medical Practitioners Conducting Photocoagulation for PDR (AVENUE-PDR): A Feasibility Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 6 Nov 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
To Investigate the Feasibility and Acceptability of Trained Non-medical Professionals Performing Laser Treatment for Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy (PDR), and the Potential Impact on Service Capacity. To assess Feasibility of Conducting a Full Trial Comparing Trained ECPs With Ophthalmologists in performing laser treatment in line with the established protocols.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 50 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 29 Apr 2026
- Start date
- 1 Mar 2026
- Primary completion date
- Dec 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Swansea Bay University Health Board
- Diseases
- Diabetic eye disease
- NCT number
- NCT07923292
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 50
- From 1 Mar 2026 to the primary completion date, Dec 2026
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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AI-kivonat: who the study is looking for
Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults with diabetes who have proliferative diabetic retinopathy and are newly referred for laser treatment.
- Age
- 18 years or over
- Sex
- All sexes can join.
- Disease stage
- Proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR), in people with diabetes.
- Earlier treatment
- New referrals only. People whose laser treatment has already started cannot join.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Follow-up appointments, where treatment has already started
- Eye complications that may make laser treatment difficult
- Vitreous haemorrhage
- Dense media opacity
- Eye complications that prevent a view of the retina
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Vitreous haemorrhage
Other
- Follow up appointments i.e. treatment already started
- Eye complications which may make laser treatment difficult
- Dense media opacity
- Eye care complications which prevent a view of the retina
Who the study is looking for
- People with diabetes
- Proliferative diabetic retinopathy
- Aged18 years or over
- New referrals
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swansea Bay University Health Board: Ophthalmology Department, Singleton Hospital | Swansea | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
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