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DOI: 10.3310/hta16060Health Technology Assessment 2012; Vol. 16: No. 659TABLE 16 Relationships between visual function and NEIVFQ scoresHRQoL scoreBCVANEIVFQcompositeNEIVFQ distanceactivitiesNEIVFQ nearactivitiesCSNEIVFQcompositeNEIVFQ distanceactivitiesNEIVFQ nearactivitiesHRQoLscaleLinear regressioncoefficient (95% CI)Quadratic regressioncoefficient (95% CI)0–100 –0.129 (–0.342 to 0.083) 0.0067 (0.0049 to0.0085)0–100 0.00002 (–0.236 to 0.236) 0.0075 (0.0054 to0.0096)0–100 0.397 (–0.626 to –0.127) 0.0111 (0.0090 to0.0131)0–100 –1.285 (–1.646 to –0.924) 0.0540 (0.0454 to0.0625)0–100 –1.737 (–2.181 to –1.292) 0.0694 (0.0589 to0.0799)0–100 –1.967 (–2.406 to –1.527) 0.0757 (0.0653 to0.0860)HRQoL change per 100HRQoL change per fiveline) a,b range) aletters (≡ one chart letters (i.e. whole chart3.90 ~55.05.08 ~72.55.48 ~72.8HRQoL change per 48HRQoL change per threesensitivity triad) a,b range) aletters (≡ one contrast letters (i.e. whole chart6.99 ~44.48.74 ~57.69.32 ~64.7a Estimated HRQoL change assumes the change in BCVA occurs in the better-seeing eye.b Changes in HRQoL estimated <strong>for</strong> a 5-letter drop in BCVA from 70 to 65 letters, and a 3-letter drop in CS (one triad) from 35 to 32 letters.Similarly, CS in the better-seeing eye strongly predicted the composite total, distance and nearactivity NEIVFQ score (p < 0.0001 <strong>for</strong> all three HRQoL measures, but less strongly than BCVA).The relationship between CS and NEIVFQ core total is shown in the scatterplot in Figure 16; therelationships were similar <strong>for</strong> distance and near NEIVFQ scores. As <strong>for</strong> BCVA, the relationshipswere positive and quadratic and had steeper gradients than those observed <strong>for</strong> SF-6D, PCS andMCS scores. Predicted changes in composite total, distance and near NEIVFQ scores <strong>for</strong> 3-letter(one triad) and 48-letter reductions in CS are shown in Table 16. Because the functions wereagain quadratic, the predicted NEIVFQ changes <strong>for</strong> 48-letter reductions are again describedas approximate.Based on the best-fitting model <strong>for</strong> the NEIVFQ composite total score and an aver<strong>age</strong> presentingBCVA of 50 letters and CS of 23 letters, the differences in BCVA and CS observed in the TAPtrials <strong>for</strong> predominantly classic nAMD lesions (11 ETDRS and 5 CS letters, respectively) 4,30‘translate’ into differences in score of about 9 and 12 respectively (on a scale of 0 to 100). In theVPDT cohort study, the net BCVA benefit was slightly smaller, at about nine letters (see Figure 7);this BCVA benefit ‘translates’ into a difference in NEIVFQ composite total score of about 7.For minimally classic nAMD lesions, the visual benefit observed in the TAP trials of four ETDRSletters after 1 year 4,30 ‘translates’ into a difference in NEIVFQ composite total score of about 3. Thelarger net BCVA benefit observed in the study, of about five letters (see Figure 8), ‘translates’ intoa difference in NEIVFQ composite total score of about 4.© Queen’s Printer and Controller of HMSO 2012. This work was produced by Reeves et al. under the terms of a commissioning contract issued by theSecretary of State <strong>for</strong> Health.

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