Racial disparities in the use of ancillary testing to evaluate individuals with open-angle glaucoma.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether racial disparities exist in the use of ancillary testing to evaluate individuals with open-angle glaucoma.

Methods

We identified all enrollees aged 40 years and older in a large US managed care network with retinal or optic nerve conditions that could warrant the use of ancillary testing. Among persons with open-angle glaucoma or glaucoma suspects, we performed repeated-measures multivariable logistic regression to determine the odds and probabilities each year of undergoing visual field testing, fundus photography, and other ocular imaging for black, white, Hispanic, and Asian American men and women and compared the groups.

Results

Among the 797 879 eligible enrollees, 149 018 individuals had open-angle glaucoma. The odds of undergoing

SUBMITTER: Stein JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3635134 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature