Real-World Functional Outcomes and Quality of Life in Geographic Atrophy

Durga Borkar; Ehsan Rahimy; M Ali Khan; Allen C Ho; Meghan Hatfield; Thai Hien Nguyen; Daniel Jones; Mitchell S Fineman; Alex McKeown; Theodore Leng; Caroline R Baumal; Nancy Holekamp

doi:10.1016/j.oret.2024.11.013

Real-World Functional Outcomes and Quality of Life in Geographic Atrophy

Ophthalmol Retina. 2024 Nov 19:S2468-6530(24)00543-8. doi: 10.1016/j.oret.2024.11.013. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Duke University Eye Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Electronic address: durga.borkar@duke.edu.
² Sutter Health, Palo Alto, California, USA; Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA.
³ Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁴ Verana Health, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁵ Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.
⁶ Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA.
⁷ Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA; New England Eye Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁸ Pepose Vision Center, St Louis, Missouri, USA.

PMID: 39571793
DOI: 10.1016/j.oret.2024.11.013

Abstract

Terms related to geographic atrophy progression and ocular comorbidities are well documented in ophthalmology clinical notes, while terms related to vision-related quality of life and functional outcomes are rarely documented.