Effectiveness of screening older people for impaired vision in community setting: systematic review of evidence from randomised controlled trials.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess whether population screening for impaired vision among older people in the community leads to improvements in vision.

Design

Systematic review of randomised controlled trials of population screening in the community that included any assessment of vision or visual function with at least 6 months' follow up.

Subjects

Adults aged 65 or over.

Main outcome measure

Proportions with visual impairment in intervention and control groups with any method of assessing visual impairment.

Results

There were no trials that primarily assessed visual screening. Outcome data on vision were available for 3494 people in five trials of multiphasic assessment. All the trials used self reported measures for vision impairment, both as screening tools and as

SUBMITTER: Smeeth L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC28469 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature