Study Finds Most Patients Who Need Gonioscopy Don’t Get It
N ew research found that more than 70 percent of patients receiving an initial glaucoma evaluation in the United States do not have record of gonioscopy. 1 In this retrospective, case-c ontrol study, researchers assessed patterns in gonioscopy during initial glaucoma evaluations in the United States. Subjects with a diagnosis of glaucoma suspect, anatomical narrow angle (ANA) or primary/secondary glaucoma were included. Among the 198,995 patients (56 percent female, 44 percent male) in this analysis,