MEDIC publish 2 works in some of the most prestigious Optometry & Ophthalmology Journals

June has been a great month in terms of publications. Finally and after a long review process, 2 Journal papers validating 2 versions of the QuickSee device have been accepted for publication.

The first work, named Quality of Eyeglass prescriptions from a low cost wavefront autorefractor evaluated in rural India: results of a 708-participant field study has been accepted in BMJ Open Ophthalmology. This paper assess the quality of prescriptions provided by a prototype version of the QuickSee, when operated by a minimally trained technician compared to those obtained by an experienced optometrist using the standard method. Data from 708 participants indicate a marginal difference in both prescription preference and resulting visual acuity between eyeglasses derived from subjective refraction versus autorefraction. Among the 438 participants 40 years old and younger, there was no statistically significant difference in the preferences for eyeglasses derived from subjective refraction versus autorefraction. These results suggest that eyeglasses prescribed objectively by a wavefront autorefractor may be a feasible approach to increasing eyeglass accessibility in low-resource settings.

The second work, named Validation of an Affordable Handheld Wavefront autorefractor has been accepted for publication in Optometry and Vision Science. This paper presents the validation of the commercial version of the QuickSee Flip, a low-cost autorefractor based on the QuickSee technology. This study found excellent agreement between the QuickSee Flip and subjective refraction (clinical gold standard) and only small differences between the average Visual acuity that each method was able to achieve.