Liu, X;
Solebo, AL;
Keane, PA;
Moore, DJ;
Denniston, AK;
(2019)
Instrument-based tests for measuring anterior chamber cells in uveitis: a systematic review protocol.
Systematic Reviews
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, Article 30. 10.1186/s13643-019-0946-3.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Uveitis describes a group of inflammatory conditions affecting the eye. The ability to monitor inflammatory changes in anterior uveitis is crucial in clinical practice for making treatment decisions and in clinical trials for testing therapeutic agents. The current standard for quantifying anterior segment inflammation is clinical slit-lamp examination findings classified using the Standardisation of Uveitis Nomenclature (SUN) grading system. Such clinical grading systems rely on a subjective estimation using the slit lamp and are often non-linear and non-continuous scales, with large increases in cell count between each grade. Novel instrument-based technologies have emerged over the last few decades, which can provide objective and quantifiable measurements. This review will evaluate the reliability of such technologies and their level of agreement with anterior chamber (AC) cell count using clinical slit-lamp examination. METHODS: Standard systematic review methodology will be used to identify, select and extract data from studies that report the use of any instrument-based technology in the assessment of AC cells. Searches will be conducted through bibliographic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE and Cochrane Library), clinical trial registries and the grey literature. No restrictions will be placed on language or year of publication. The outcomes of interest are the correlation of index test measurements of AC cells with clinical grading systems using slit-lamp examination and the reliability of each index test identified. Quality assessment will be undertaken using QUADAS2. Degree of correlation between the index and reference test measures will be pooled and meta-analysed if appropriate. DISCUSSION: A number of instrument-based tools are available for measuring AC cells. This review will evaluate the technologies available and measure the level of correlation of these alternative methods with clinical grading systems as well as their performance in reliability and repeatability. The findings of this review will identify those objective, instrument-based technologies which show good utility for measuring AC cells in a quantifiable way and which warrant further exploration for their sensitivity and reliability over the current standard. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: PROSPERO CRD42017084156 (Liu X, Moore DJ, Denniston AK). Instrument-based tests for measuring anterior chamber (AC) cells in uveitis: a systematic review. 2017). Study screening stage is complete. Data extraction stage has not yet commenced.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Instrument-based tests for measuring anterior chamber cells in uveitis: a systematic review protocol |
Location: | England |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1186/s13643-019-0946-3 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-019-0946-3 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
Keywords: | Anterior chamber cells, Aqueous humour, Diagnostic test, Laser flare-cell photometry, Monitoring test, Optical coherence tomography, Systematic review, Uveitis |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Institute of Ophthalmology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Population, Policy and Practice Dept |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10067279 |
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