title: The Humphrey Vision Analyzer tm: reliability and validity of refractive-error measures.
abstract: Four subjective measures of the refractive error of 42 eyes (21 patients) were obtained by 2 examiners, one using a Humphrey Vision Analyzer TM and the other using a conventional refractor. Each examiner made 2 separate measures of each subject's refractive error, one without and one with an added cylindrical lens chosen at random from a predetermined set of powers and axes. The order of using the instruments and the added lenses was mixed. Measures of the refractive errors differed with the 2 instruments by approximately the same amount on average as did duplicate measures with either instrument. Refractive-error measures obtained with the 2 instruments are about as valid as they are repeatable.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001251:Astigmatism / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009907:Optometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012029:Refraction, Ocular; D012030:Refractive Errors / Q000175:diagnosis*