Background Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) can provide valuable insights on the impact of a disease or treatment patient’s health-related quality life. In ophthalmology, particularly in dry eye (DED) and ocular surface (OSD), it is unclear whether available PROMs were developed using comprehensive guidelines. To address this, we evaluated methodological studies assessing psychometric ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To determine the impact of prosthetic replacement of the ocular surface ecosystem (PROSE) treatment at 5 years. METHODS Retrospective review of clinical, manufacturing and quality databases at the Boston Foundation for Sight. RESULTS 121 patients who completed treatment and had 5-year follow-up data were identified from a cohort of patients (n=199) seen in consultation for P...

This work is concerned with the security of the standard T10 OSD protocol, a capabilitybased protocol for object stores designed by the OSD SNIA working group. The Object Store security protocol is designed to provide access control enforcement in a distributed storage setting such as a Storage Area Network (SAN) environment. In this work we consider in particular the ability of the OSD protoco...

BACKGROUND In 2007, the South African government introduced the occupation-specific dispensation (OSD), a financial incentive strategy, to attract, motivate, and retain health professionals in the public sector. Implementation commenced with the nursing sector, but there have been unintended negative consequences. OBJECTIVE First, to examine implementation of the OSD for nurses using Hogwood ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of changing to travoprost BAK-free from prior prostaglandin therapy in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension. DESIGN Prospective, multi-center, historical control study. METHODS Patients treated with latanoprost or bimatoprost who needed alternative therapy due to tolerability issues were enrolled. Patients...

Objective/Background: We examined the rates, predictors, and outcomes [mortality risk (MR), length of stay (LOS), and total charges (TC)] of sleep disturbances in older hospitalized patients. Patients/Methods: Using the U.S. Nationwide Inpatient Sample database (2002-2012), older patients (≥60 years) were selected and rates of insomnia, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and other sleep disturbances...

PURPOSE To examine the prevalence of ocular surface disease (OSD) in glaucoma patients. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study. One hundred and one patients, 18 years of age or older, with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension were consecutively recruited for the study. Patients with a history of use of cyclosporine, steroids, topical ocular nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or pun...

PURPOSE Tannery workers are exposed to hazardous chemicals. Tannery work is outsourced to newly industrialized countries (NICs) where attention into occupational health hazards is limited. In this study, we investigated the skin exposure to hazardous chemicals in tannery workers and determined the prevalence of occupational skin diseases (OSDs) at tanneries in a NIC. METHODS A cross-sectional...

Web spam, which refers to any deliberate actions bringing to selected web pages an unjustifiable favorable relevance or importance, is one of the major obstacles for high quality information retrieval on the web. Most of the existing web spam detection methods are supervised that require a large and representative training set of web pages. Moreover, they often assume some global information su...