Outcome Preferences in Patients With Noninfectious Uveitis: Results of a Best-Worst Scaling Study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To estimate patient preferences regarding potential adverse outcomes of local versus systemic corticosteroid therapies for noninfectious uveitis by using a best-worst scaling (BWS) approach.

Methods

Local and systemic therapies are alternatives for noninfectious uveitis that have different potential adverse outcomes. Patients participating in the Multicenter Uveitis Steroid Treatment Trial Follow-up Study (MUST FS) and additional patients with a history of noninfectious uveitis treated at two academic medical centers (Johns Hopkins University and University of Pennsylvania) were surveyed about their preferences regarding six adverse outcomes deemed important to patients. Using "case 1" BWS, patients were asked to repeatedly select the most and least worrying from a l

SUBMITTER: Yu T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4627251 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature