Clinical outcomes of low vision rehabilitation delivered by a mobile clinic

Abstract

Mobile clinic LVR is effective at expanding access to care and produces clinically meaningful outcomes comparable to those seen in other outpatient LVR delivery models.

Utilization and Abandonment of Low Vision Devices Prescribed on a Mobile Clinic

“…Written informed consent was obtained from all participants at the time of mobile clinic low vision rehabilitation. Further detail on enrollment is available in a previous publication 7 . This study was approved by the New England College of Optometry Institutional Review Board and followed the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki.…”

“…final visual ability minus baseline visual ability) 8 . While further details regarding Activity Inventory outcome measurements and results in the mobile clinic population have been reported elsewhere 7 , Activity Inventory results are examined here with respect to device use.…”

“…This mobile clinic traveled to central locations in different communities to provide low vision rehabilitation for patients who would otherwise lack access. Mobile clinic low vision rehabilitation has been shown to expand access to care while producing clinically meaningful outcomes, comparable to other outpatient low vision rehabilitation clinic delivery models 7 . However, device abandonment has not yet been examined in this sample.…”

Calibration of the Activity Inventory Item Bank: A Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Instrument for Low Vision Rehabilitation

“…Baseline data were collected from five previous studies and included new patients with low vision (i.e., no low vision examination in prior 3 years) across the United States. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14] All studies were approved by their respective institutional review boards and conformed to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. Each study obtained informed consent from participating persons.…”

“…MSD is applied to a large and representative sample of low vision outpatients with data pooled from five low vision outcome studies. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14]…”