Letter to Editor RE “Diagnosing dry-eye: Which tests are most accurate?”

We read with interest the recent paper by Eric Papas concerning the appropriate testing for diagnosing dry eye [1], and were concerned by the comment that “Confronted with these insights, clinicians might be forgiven for concluding that it would be better (and cheaper) to toss a coin instead of following the current TFOS DEWS II recommendations.” which could be taken out of context, even though the article goes on to state “This would be unfair however, since the guidelines actually specify the diagnostic hurdle as being the presence of “symptoms and at least one positive result of the markers of homeostasis”.

Source: Contact Lens and Anterior Eye - September 19, 2023 Category: Opthalmology Authors: James S. Wolffsohn, S ònia Travé-Huarte, Jennifer P. Craig, Michael T.M. Wang, Lyndon Jones Source Type: research