Educational Intervention to Adopt SLT as First-Line Glaucoma Treatment

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Primary Open-angle Glaucoma

In brief

The purpose of this study is to develop an educational program that will help improve the patients' understanding of what laser treatment is, how it might be beneficial to them, and why it should be the first eye pressure lowering glaucoma treatment to consider before the use of glaucoma eye drops.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03365778

Run by

Wills Eye

People needed

86

Starts

2017-10-23

Expected to finish

2019-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2020-01-30

Who can join

Age: 40 and older, up to 90. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• patients between 40 and 90 years of age
• high-risk ocular hypertension, primary open-angle glaucoma, or pseudo-exfoliation glaucoma
• currently treated with at least one glaucoma eye drop with stable intraocular pressure

You may not qualify if…

• previous laser trabeculoplasty
• previous glaucoma surgery

Where it is running

• Wills Eye Hospital — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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