ABSTRACT
PURPOSE: To analyse possibilities of diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases by practitioner. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The number and diagnosis profile of patients treated in average municipal out-patient ward was calculated and possibilities of their treatment by general practitioner were analysed. RESULTS: In 87.4% of eye-patients general practitioner cannot diagnose and treat the disease and he has to send them to an eye-doctor. CONCLUSION: The system that eye-patient cannot check-in directly to an eye-doctor is more costly because general practitioners can diagnose and treat only small number of these patients. Therefore nearly every patient has to be consulted be eye-specialist, which increases the costs of treatment because patient has to be seen by two doctors.
