María Falcón Romero

Improving Black Patient Question-Asking and Provider Education During Glaucoma Visits.

The intervention increased patient question-asking about glaucoma and glaucoma medications and provider education about glaucoma. FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE(S): Proprietary or commercial disclosure may be found after the references.

A Previsit Intervention's Influence on Glaucoma Topics Discussed between Black Patients and Providers.

The intervention significantly increased provider education about many glaucoma and glaucoma medication topics. FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE(S): Proprietary or commercial disclosure may be found in the Footnotes and Disclosures at the end of this article.

African American patient-provider communication about glaucoma vision quality-of-life.

Patients and providers rarely discussed the patient's glaucoma-related quality-of-life. The intervention did not significantly increase communication about glaucoma-related quality-of-life. Residency programs should consider enhancing training regarding discussing patients' quality-of-life.

Do African American patients with glaucoma ask their eye providers the questions they have?

Although African American subjects with glaucoma have questions about glaucoma and their medications, few asked all their questions during visits. Future research should focus on how to improve question asking using a question prompt list.