Investigators Seek Optimized Ophthalmology Clinical Trial Outcomes

Investigators from Brown University and Johns Hopkins University shared new considerations from 3 groups working to standardize Core Outcome Sets (COSs), to increase the utility of results from randomized clinical trials for 3 eye conditions: age-related macular degeneration (AMD), refractive error in children, and dry eye, according to a report in MD Magazine.

This new editorial comes from the mindset, lead author Ian J. Saldanha, PhD, MPH, MBBS, assistant professor at Brown, told MD Magazine, that there is something within ophthalmology care standards that can be fixed.

“We wrote this editorial to inform the world about an initiative we’ve undertaken to help solve this problem, starting with 3 disease areasa—age-related macular degeneration, refractive error in children, and dry eye,” Dr. Saldanha said.

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