The direction of research into visual disability and quality of life in glaucoma.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Glaucoma will undoubtedly impact on a person's ability to function as they go about their day-to-day life. The purpose of this study is to investigate the amount of published knowledge in quality of life (QoL) and visual disability studies for glaucoma, and make comparisons with similar research in other chronic conditions.

Methods

A systematic literature search of the Global Health, EMBASE Psychiatry and MEDLINE databases. Title searches for glaucoma and six other example chronic diseases were entered alongside a selection of keywords chosen to capture studies focusing on QoL and everyday task ability. These results were further filtered during a manual search of resulting abstracts. Outcomes were the number of publications per year for each disease, number relat

SUBMITTER: Glen FC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3161024 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature