Predictive value of screening tests for visually significant eye disease.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine the predictive value of ophthalmic screening tests with visually significant eye disease in a cohort of American Indian/Alaskan Natives from the Pacific Northwest.

Design

Validity assessment of a possible screening protocol.

Methods

Ophthalmic technicians performed a screening examination including medical and ocular history, best-corrected visual acuity, limbal anterior chamber depth assessment, frequency-doubling technology perimetry (FDT, C-20-5), confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, nonmydriatic digital photography, and tonometry on 429 participants. An ophthalmologist performed a comprehensive eye examination on subjects with 1 or more abnormal screening tests and a random selection of those with normal screening tests. We used univariate

SUBMITTER: Kopplin LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5520795 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature