Evaluation of quality of life and priorities of patients with glaucoma.

Purpose: To investigate the quality of life and priorities of patients with glaucoma.

Methods: Patients diagnosed with glaucoma and no other ocular comorbidity were consecutively recruited. Clinical information was collected.

Features of asthma management: quantifying the patient perspective.

Background: In the management of asthma, features of care important to patients may not be fully appreciated. This study quantifies the importance of different features of asthma management from the patient perspective. This may assist in the development of personalised management strategies.

Conjoint analysis of French and German parents' willingness to pay for meningococcal vaccine.

Objective: To estimate the willingness of parents in France and Germany to pay for meningococcal conjugate vaccines for their teenage children.

Methods: A conjoint analysis survey was administered to parents who had received counselling on the nature and risks of meningococcal disease in young people. In each country, half were randomly assigned to view a video with graphical depictions of the effects of meningococcaemia.