NEW YORK — Quality of life measurements and patient-reported outcomes in geographic atrophy are infrequently documented by ophthalmologists in electronic health records, according to an analysis of the IRIS Registry.
In a presentation at the American Society of Retina Specialists annual meeting, Durga Borkar, MD, said geographic atrophy (GA) significantly impairs visual function and quality of life, but real-world data on correlations between GA progression and functional decline are lacking.
“We performed a retrospective cohort analysis of patient notes in the IRIS Registry to