Development of a rapid point-of-care patient reported outcome measure for cataract surgery in India.

Background: For patient undergoing cataract surgery in India, existing patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures are either not culturally relevant, have not been adequately validated, or are too long to be used in a busy clinical setting. We sought to develop and validate a brief and culturally relevant point-of-care PRO measure to address this need.

Methods: Twelve items from the Indian Visual Functioning Questionnaire (IND-VFQ) were selected based on preliminary data.