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What is Eyeglasses?

Correction for vision impairments.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Vision 180 24 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight Efficacy_none
Vision loss 29 4 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate
Other 16 2 Efficacy_major
General health 15 4 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate
Visual disturbance 14 2 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate
Blurry vision 12 2 Efficacy_major Efficacy_slight

See all 364 patients currently using Eyeglasses

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 1
Mild
 10
None
 28

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Eyeglasses

Eye strain 6
Weight on nose 3
Hard to Adjust eye direction to correct lense. 2
Headaches 1
looking different 1

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Using (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other 4   Other: 67%
Did not seem to work 1   Did not seem to work: 17%
Expense 1   Expense: 17%

See all 5 patients who’ve stopped using Eyeglasses

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

How Long Current Patients Have Been Using Eyeglasses

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0

How Long Patients Used Before Stopping

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
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Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Eyeglasses

Always
 36 92%
Usually
 3 8%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Eyeglasses

Very
 1 3%
Somewhat
 4 10%
A little
 14 36%
Not at all
 20 51%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Eyeglasses

$200+
 3 21%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 1 7%
< $25
 9 64%

Report created on February 10, 2012.