Utility assessment is a formal method for quantifying and understanding the relative impact
of a given health state or disease on patients. In this article, methodology of utility …

PURPOSE: To determine utilities (patient preferences) for dry eye disease. DESIGN: Survey
study. PARTICIPANTS: Fifty-six patients with mild, moderate, or severe dry eye treated by …

Background: Utility theory can be used to quantify dysfunction associated with various
diseases and thus can represent a “hard” measure of quality of life. By determining utility …

Importance Understanding how individuals value health states is central to patient-centered
care and to health policy decision making. Generic preference-based measures of health …

PURPOSE: To assess the visual utility values of patients with ocular disease and to compare
these values with those of patients with systemic health states DESIGN: Cross-sectional …

Purpose: To assess the association of severity of ocular discomfort with measures of quality
of life among patients with moderate to severe dry eye disease (DED). Methods: This is a …

Purpose: The purpose of this analysis was to measure the degree of agreement between
clinicians' assessment and subjects' self-assessment of dry eye severity in a cross-sectional …

purpose. To assess the relative burden of dry eye in daily life by comparing Short Form-36
(SF-36) responses from individuals with and without dry eye against US norms. methods …

Objective To assess the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) for the Ocular Surface
Disease Index (OSDI; Allergan Inc, Irvine, California, holds the copyright), a 12-item patient …

Purpose. To estimate a utility-based glaucoma health outcome measure, known as the
Glaucoma Utility Index. Methods. Based on focus group studies, involving people with …