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Screening for Glaucoma

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The value of screening for open angle glaucoma in the elderly has been a hotly debated topic for the last 20 years. When the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) considered this question in a formal document in 1988, their conclusion essentially was that screening for glaucoma or those among the elderly at risk for glaucoma was expensive. Although the authors recognized that “the potential benefits of such a program (were) substantial, whether those benefits (could) actually be realized (was) still highly uncertain.” The OTA document continued to note that value would be dependent upon “two unknown factors: first, on the true accuracy of the various screening tests in the settings in which they would be used; and second, on the effectiveness of treatment in preventing, halting, or delaying the progression of visual impairment due to OAG (open angle glaucoma)” [24]

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Higginbotham, E.J. (2004). Screening for Glaucoma. In: Glaucoma. Essentials in Ophthalmology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18633-2_3

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