Prioritizing outcome preferences in patients with ocular hypertension and open-angle glaucoma using best-worst scaling.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To quantify patients' preferences for glaucoma outcomes and use this information to prioritize outcomes that are important to patients.

Design

A cross-sectional study using best-worst scaling object case (BWS).

Participants

Two hundred seventy-four participants newly diagnosed with ocular hypertension or mild to moderate open angle glaucoma from three private practices and one academic medical center in the United States.

Methods

We designed a preference-elicitation survey based on findings from 25 semi-structured, qualitative interviews with patients with glaucoma (reported elsewhere). The survey asked participants to rate the importance of 13 glaucoma outcomes on a Likert scale as a warm-up exercise followed by completion of 13 BWS tasks. For each tas

SUBMITTER: Le JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7192342 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature