Home-Monitoring Vision Tests to Detect Active Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Most neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) treatments involve long-term follow-up of disease activity. Home-monitoring would reduce the burden on patients and their caregivers and release clinic capacity.

Objective

To evaluate 3 vision home-monitoring tests for patients to use to detect active nAMD compared with diagnosing active nAMD at hospital follow-up during the after-treatment monitoring phase.

Design, setting, and participants

This was a diagnostic test accuracy study wherein the reference standard was detection of active nAMD by an ophthalmologist at hospital follow-up. The 3 home-monitoring tests evaluated included the following: (1) the KeepSight Journal (KSJ [International Macular and Retinal Foundation]), which contains paper-based

SUBMITTER: Hogg RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11046404 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature