Background The purpose of low‐vision rehabilitation is to allow people to resume or to
continue to perform daily living tasks, with reading being one of the most important. This is …

With increased emphasis on functional outcomes in ophthalmology, third-party health care
payers and research funding agencies have turned their attention to the development and …

Purpose: To determine the relationship between clinical measures of vision impairment and
the ability to perform activities of daily living (ADLs). Methods: One hundred and twenty …

methods. Patients diagnosed with glaucoma and no other ocular comorbidity were
consecutively recruited. Clinical information was collected. Participants were asked to …

Abstract The American Medical Association's (AMA) visual efficiency scale, a vision disability
metric based on visual impairment measurements, was adopted in 1925. That scale was …

Purpose: To investigate whether short German sentences that have been developed to be
highly comparable in number and length of words, as well as in difficulty and construction …

Translational research in vision prosthetics, gene therapy, optogenetics, stem cell and other
forms of transplantation, and sensory substitution is creating new therapeutic options for …

purpose. The Activities of Daily Vision Scale (ADVS) has been extensively validated by
traditional methodology. In the current study, Rasch analysis was used to explore further the …

purpose. To evaluate the sensitivity of the National Eye Institute Visual Functioning
Questionnaire-25 (NEI VFQ-25) to change in visual abilities after low-vision rehabilitation in …

The National Eye Institute developed a visual functioning questionnaire (NEI-VFQ) designed
to assess health-related quality of life of patients with visual impairments. The developers of …