Association of an Objective Structural and Functional Reference Standard for Glaucoma with Quality of Life Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To compare self-reported quality-of-life (QoL) outcomes of patients diagnosed as normal, glaucoma suspect, and glaucoma based on an objective reference standard for glaucomatous optic neuropathy (GON).

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Participants

1884 eyes of 1019 patients were included in the study.

Methods

The data was sourced from the Duke Glaucoma Registry. Eyes were classified according to the presence and topographic correspondence of functional and structural damage, as assessed by parameters from standard automated perimetry (SAP) and spectral-domain OCT (SD-OCT). The objective diagnosis of the worse eye was used to define patient-level diagnosis. To assess QoL in the diagnostic groups, 14 unidimensional vision-related items of the National Eye In

SUBMITTER: Naithani R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10697472 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature