The Frequency of Visual Field Testing in a US Nationwide Cohort of Individuals with Open-Angle Glaucoma.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Visual field testing that is not frequent enough results in delayed identification of open-angle glaucoma (OAG) progression. Guidelines recommend at least annual testing. It is not known how frequently patients with OAG across the United States receive visual field testing and how patient characteristics and circumstances influence this frequency. If US patients with OAG do not receive visual field tests frequently enough, interventions to increase this frequency or to develop other forms of testing visual function may reduce unidentified OAG vision loss.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Participants

The TruvenHealth MarketScan Commercial Claims Database (IBM) contains demographic and claims data for > 160 million individuals across the United States from 20

SUBMITTER: Stagg BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9675879 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature