Clinicians' Use of Quantitative Information while Assessing the Rate of Functional Progression in Glaucoma.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Clinicians use both global and point-wise information from visual fields to assess the rate of glaucomatous functional progression. We asked which objective, quantitative measures best correlated with subjective assessment by glaucoma experts. In particular, we aimed to determine how much that judgment was based on localized rates of change vs. on global indices reported by the perimeter.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Participants

Eleven academic, expert glaucoma specialists independently scored the rate of functional progression, from 1 (improvement) to 7 (very rapid progression), for a series of 5 biannual clinical printouts from 100 glaucoma or glaucoma suspect eyes of 51 participants, 20 of which were scored twice to assess repeatability.

Methods

SUBMITTER: Gardiner SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9464792 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature