Eye Disorders

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Incorporating Mortality Risk Into Estimates of 5-Year Glaucoma Risk — Dec 31, 2008

Considers the effects of incorporating mortality risk, a potentially important factor to consider when deciding whether to initiate therapy for ocular hypertensives, into estimates of 5-year glaucoma risk.

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Community-partnered Approaches to Enhance Chronic Kidney Disease Awareness, Prevention, and Early Intervention — Dec 31, 2007

Using community-partnered participatory research practices and principles, incorporates World Kidney Day objectives with community goals to develop infrastructure, shared objectives, and workgroups to reduce the burden of chronic kidney disease.

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Severity of Visual Field Loss and Health-Related Quality of Life — Dec 31, 2006

To examine the association between severity of visual field loss (VFL) and self-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in a population-based sample.

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Psychometric Performance of the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire in Latinos and Non-Latinos — Dec 31, 2005

Overall performance of the NEI VFQ in Latino populations is adequate.

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Impact of Severity and Bilaterality of Visual Impairment on Health-Related Quality of Life — Dec 31, 2005

To assess the impact of unilateral and bilateral visual impairment (VI) and its severity on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in Latinos 40 years and older.

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Practice Characteristics and HMO Enrollee Satisfaction and Speciality Care: An Analysis of Patients with Glaucoma and Diabetic Retinopathy — Dec 31, 2002

Many eye care patients prefer to be treated by specialists with expertise in their conditions.

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Patterns of Care for Open-Angle Glaucoma in Managed Care — Dec 31, 2002

This study suggests that, in many respects, patients with POAG are receiving care that is consistent with the PPP. However, care is falling short on several key aspects, and POAG may be undertreated relative to standards for IOP control established in recent clinical trials.

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Development of the National Eye Institute Refractive Error Correction Quality of Life Questionnaire: Focus Groups — Dec 31, 2002

The similarity of problems mentioned across refractive error type and correction method suggests it will be possible to develop a single questionnaire with adequate content validity to compare the impact of different modes of correction in vision-targeted, health-related quality of life.

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Responsiveness of the National Eye Institute Refractive Error Quality of Life Instrument to Surgical Correction of Refractive Error — Dec 31, 2002

The NEI-RQL is responsive to changes in vision-targeted health-related quality of life resulting from keratorefractive surgery.

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Associations of Presbyopia with Vision-Targeted Health-Related Quality of Life — Dec 31, 2002

Evaluates the associations of presbyopia and its correction, particularly monovision optical correction, with vision-targeted health-related quality of life.

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Sampling Patients Within Physician Practices and Health Plans: Multistage Cluster Samples in Health Services Research — Dec 31, 2002

To better inform study design decisions when sampling patients within health plans and physician practices with multiple analysis goals.

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Visual Acuity Following Cataract Surgeries in Relation to Preoperative Appropriateness Ratings — Dec 31, 2002

These results provide evidence supporting the validity of the RAND-UCLA method to assess the appropriateness of surgery.

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Psychometric Properties of the National Eye Institute-Refractive Error Quality of Life Instrument — Dec 31, 2002

These results support the reliability and construct validity of the NEI-RQL.

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Development of the 25-Item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire — Dec 31, 2000

The reliability and validity of the NEI VFQ-25 are comparable to those of the 51-item NEI VFQ field test version of the survey. This shorter version will be more feasible in settings such as clinical trials where interview length is a critical consideration.

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The Relationship of Self-Rated Vision and Hearing to Functional Status and Well-Being Among Seniors 70 Years and Older — Dec 31, 1998

Visual and hearing impairment appear to have a significant relationship to overall functioning in the oldest old. By confirming these findings across income and household wealth groups in a nationally representative population of Americans age 70 years or older, this study provides a powerful added impetus to efforts for improving vision and hearing for all other Americans, including the oldest old.

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Visual Function Impairments in Relation to Gender, Age, and Visual Acuity in Patients Who Undergo Cataract Surgery — Dec 31, 1997

This study aimed to determine the relationship between visual function impairment in 776 patients who had extracapsular cataract extraction with posterior chamber intraocular lens implantation and gender, age, preoperative visual acuity of both the operative and the contralateral eye, and presence of other ocular disease in the operative eye.

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Do We Understand the Effects of 'Managed Care' in Ophthalmology? A Review and Analysis — Dec 31, 1996

Little has been published that directly assesses the effect of structures for providing managed care or the effects of capitated, prepaid financing on the cost and quality of eye care services.

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Variations in Cataract Extraction Rates in Medicare Prepaid and Fee-for-Service Settings — Dec 31, 1996

Examines variation in the use of procedures e.g. cataract extraction in Medicare prepaid and fee-for-service (FFS) settings. The study was based on a cross-sectional analysis using 1993 Medicare claims and encounter files. The main outcome was age and risk-adjusted rates of cataract extraction per 1,000 beneficiary-years. After controlling for age, sex, and diabetes status, the authors found that FFS beneficiaries were twice as likely to…

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Functional Associations of "trouble Seeing" — Dec 31, 1996

Determines how vision problems affect health status.

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Use of Eye Care Services Among the 1991 Medicare Population — Dec 31, 1995

The authors examine the use of eye care services among the 1991 Medicare population based on claims from a representative 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries.

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