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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Ophthalmol. 2009 Sep;127(9):1136–1145. doi: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2009.187

Table 2.

Schedule of Baseline and Follow-up Testing

Visit
Qualification/Baseline Visual Field 2nd Baseline Follow-up Annual
Screening interview X
Informed consent X
Clinical examination and medical history
 Blood pressure X X
 Medical history X X
Ocular examination
 Axial length, color vision, pachymetry, keratometry, gonioscopya X
 Acuity, refraction, X X X
 Corneal viscoelasticity X X X
 Undilated and dilated ocular examination including slitlamp and direct and indirect ophthalmoscopy X X
 Goldmann applanation tonometry X X
 Lens opacity classification system X X
 Simultaneous stereophotographs X X
Imaging
 Scanning laser polarimetry X X
 Retina tomographyb X X
 Optical coherence tomographyc X X
Visual field testing
 Standard automated perimetry X X X
 Short-wavelength automated perimetry X X X
 Frequency doubling technology perimetry X X X
a

Only done on the qualification visit, unless the participant had ocular surgery during the study.

b

Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (Heidelberg Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany).

c

Stratus OCT (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Dublin, California).