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2/2/99 Chapter 13 Chairman and Clinic Operations page 13-2
Table 13-1. Per-Patient Payment to Participating Clinics and to Patients.
Visit Type Payment to Clinic Payment to Patient
Annual Visit 2 $300 $20
Annual Visit 3 $300 $20
13.2 CLEK Study Newsletters
One CLEK Study patient newsletter is distributed each year. This newsletter
provides Study-related information to give the patients a sense of the national
perspective of the study, provide health information relevant to CLEK Study patients,
and highlight achievements—professional and personal—of CLEK Study personnel.
The newsletters are designed to maintain contact with the patients and to promote
esprit de corps. The newsletter is distributed to all CLEK Study personnel, all CLEK
Study patients, and referring doctors as requested by the Participating Clinics. One of
the two semi-annual issues includes a tear-out, addressed postcard for the patient to
mail back to the Chairman’s Office for address verification. CLEK Study patients will
also receive reprints of all pertinent publications.
13.3 Introduction to Participating Clinic Operations
The organization of a CLEK Clinic varies across Participating Clinics.
The Clinic Principal Investigator is the Clinician, who is responsible for on-site
management of the project and for interaction with the CLEK Study Chairman, the
Coordinating Center, and the CLEK Photography Reading Center.
The Clinic coordination, clerical, and correspondence tasks are the responsibility
of the Clinic Principal Investigator, but each Clinic must have someone certified for
coordination duties. How these duties will be handled—whether they will be delegated
to a departmental secretary, work study student, or ophthalmic technician, for
example—is determined by the individual Clinic Principal Investigator.
The Study measurement tasks, visual acuity, refraction, keratometry, slit lamp
examination, corneal photography, application of trial lenses to the First Definite Apical
Clearance Lens with fluorescein photography of the First Definite Apical Clearance
Lens and the lens 0.2 mm flatter than the First Definite Apical Clearance Lens, and
fluorescein photography of the patient’s habitual lenses (in rigid lens wearers only), can
be completed by as few as two (Clinician and Back-up Clinician with one of them
performing Clinic coordination duties) and as many as five (Clinician, Back-up
Clinician, Technician, Photographer, and Clinic Coordinator) people; however, funding
is only provided for travel to the training meeting for three people per Clinic.