Catquest questionnaire for use in cataract surgery care: description, validity, and reliability.

摘要: Abstract Purpose: To describe and evaluate the Catquest self-assessment questionnaire for cataract patients. Setting: Thirty-five Swedish departments of ophthalmology. Methods: The is designed to be used by surgeons continuous quality control regarding appropriateness outcome surgery. It administered before after focuses on visual disabilities in daily life, activity level, symptoms, degree independence. results are interpreted using a benefit matrix that credits not only decrease symptoms but also an improvement or maintenance preoperative level. was consecutive patients having surgery during March 1995 at participating surgical units. Results: A full range responses given all questions. strong relationship found between patients' questions about life their general opinion vision ( P Conclusion: had high validity reliability when as diseasespecific instrument testing extraction.