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. 2021 Jul 28:15:3205-3211.
doi: 10.2147/OPTH.S309727. eCollection 2021.

Comparing a Home Vision Self-Assessment Test to Office-Based Snellen Visual Acuity

Tiffany A Chen  1 , Jonathan Li  1 , Julie M Schallhorn  1   2 , Catherine Q Sun  1   2
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Comparing a Home Vision Self-Assessment Test to Office-Based Snellen Visual Acuity

Tiffany A Chen et al. Clin Ophthalmol. .

Abstract

Purpose: To evaluate the agreement of a home vision screening test compared to standard in-office technician-measured Snellen visual acuity to allow for remote screening and triaging of patients.

Patients and methods: In this prospective study, English-speaking patients with in-office ophthalmology appointments from May to August 2020 and visual acuity better than 20/125 were asked to complete a home vision test one week before their scheduled in-office appointment. The home vision test was a modified ETDRS chart displayed in a PDF document that could be printed or viewed on a monitor. The primary outcome was the mean difference between office-based and home visual acuity.

Results: Eighty-two eyes of 45 patients were included in the study with 45 study eyes analyzed. The mean difference between office-based and home visual acuity was -0.02 logMAR (SD 0.15, P=0.28) among study eyes. Of these eyes, 91% demonstrated agreement between the two methods within 0.2 logMAR of the mean difference, and 60% had agreement within 0.1 logMAR of the mean difference. There were no significant demographic or ocular risk factors leading to a greater difference between the tests.

Conclusion: There was good agreement between the home and in-office Snellen tests for patients with vision better than 20/125. The home vision test can be used to remotely determine if there is a significant vision change of >0.2 logMAR or approximately 2 lines of visual acuity.

Keywords: home vision test; tele-ophthalmology; telemedicine; vision screening.

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Conflict of interest statement

Dr Julie M Schallhorn reports personal fees from Zeiss, Allergan, Vanda, and Long Bridge Medical, outside the submitted work. The authors report no other conflicts of interest in this work.

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Scatterplot of Office versus Home Visual Acuity.
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Bland-Altman Plot of Office versus Home Visual Acuity.
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