ArticleTransactions of the American Ophthalmological Society2001
Glaucoma patients' assessment of their visual function and quality of life.
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- Mental Health Status and Quality of Life in Undiagnosed Glaucoma Patients: A Nationwide Population-Based Study.Medicine · 2016Article
- Biomarkers and surrogate endpoints in glaucoma clinical trials.The British journal of ophthalmology · 2015Review
- Longitudinal changes in quality of life and rates of progressive visual field loss in glaucoma patients.Ophthalmology · 2015Observational
- Predicting Risk of Motor Vehicle Collisions in Patients with Glaucoma: A Longitudinal Study.PloS one · 2015Article
- Does the type of treatment have an influence on utility values in a glaucoma population?Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2015Article
- Association between visual field defects and quality of life in the United States.Ophthalmology · 2014Article
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Abstract
purposeTo determine how glaucoma patients with various degrees of vision loss rate their vision, and to determine if the Esterman binocular visual field test and other visual function tests correlate with those ratings.
methodsTwo hundred thirty-seven glaucoma patients evaluated their vision using 2 utility tests, the linear rating scale and the time trade-off test, and 2 quality-of-life instruments, the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (VFQ) and the Short Form 36 (SF-36). Their results were compared to clinical tests of their vision and to persons with normal vision (n = 12) and blind persons (n = 12).
resultsOn a scale of 0 (blind) to 100 (ideal), subjects with normal vision rated their vision higher (90 +/- 8.0) than did glaucoma subjects and suspects (75.7 +/- 17.6) and "blind" subjects (15.6 +/- 15.3), P = .001. Mean scores for the Esterman test were 89.7 +/- 13.4 for the glaucoma group. The Esterman test correlated moderately with the overall VFQ score (partial correlation coefficient [PCC] = 0.32, P = .001), but only weakly with the linear rating scale (PCC = 0.17, P = .02) and the time trade-off test (PCC = -0.16, P = .06). Correlation between the linear rating scale and the overall VFQ score was good (PCC = 0.56, P = .0001) and was moderate with several domains of the SF-36 (e.g., social function PCC = 0.32, P = .0001).
conclusionsUtility values that glaucoma patients assign to their vision do not correlate well with Esterman test results. A challenge for the future will be designing clinical tests that better correlate with patient perceptions.
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