Significant Results. The dissemination and communication plan has been completed, all partners are actively promoting the project with a growing presence on twitter. The website is complete with a public and private section and it is also available in nine languages.
Significant Results. By the end of this reporting period, the main results are related to the requirements from all involved stakeholders as well as a more detailed overview of the pilot participants expectations and results. These are described in D3.1. However, two other preliminary results have also been produced. One of utmost importance is the established lessons plans including a framework, taxonomy and scenarios (D3.3) developed under the lead of COVUNI. These lessons plans are important for the first development of the different componentsthat will be prototypical tested in the small scale pilots. A second pre-liminary resultsis the inventory of useful components and expertise withinthe consortium as well as from many of the pilot sites. This overviewwill ensure high re-use of existing components and thus reduce the time to market.
Significant Results. Not applicable as not active
Significant Results. The two significant results when comparing means are by treatment group and treated vs. fellow eyes, both at 1 year. The first of these results suggests that the contact lens treatment decreases astigmatism (Table 3), whereas the IOL treatment does not. A similar result can be seen in the comparison between treated and fellow eyes at 1 year: the fellow eyes decreased in astigmatism between baseline and 1 year, while the treated eyes had only a very slight decrease. In both cases, however, our results are less than clinically significant. The difference of 0.47 diopters between the two treatment groups at 1 year of age is statistically significant; however, less than one half of one diopter of astigmatism is only moderately significant in the clinical setting. The same can be said for treated and fellow eyes. Here the difference between the two groups at 1 year is even less than the other significant result. No other demographic factors or elements of the surgical technique significantly increase astigmatism at 1 year of age, or the change in keratometric astigmatism from baseline measurements, in IATS patients. One possible cause for decreased astigmatism in one treatment group may be due to the fact that wearing a contact lens can reshape the cornea. A practice, called orthokeratology, is sometimes used to correct other refractive errors like myopia. However, orthokeratology, according to contact lens manufacturers, can also correct small amounts of astigmatism: amounts between 0.75 and 1.50 diopters are considered correctable. However, in a new case report (Xxxxxxxxx and Xxxx, 2010), it is reported that new orthokeratology designs in contact lenses may correct more severe levels of astigmatism, as high as 7.0 D. It is therefore possible that some contact lens wearers, especially those with smaller baseline astigmatism values in the contact lens arm of treatment, may unknowingly be receiving orthokeratology treatment by attempting to correct for myopia. This may explain small changes in the mean values at 1 year and, especially, the change values between baseline and 1 year of age.
Significant Results. In furtherance of University's role as a public institution of higher education it is necessary that significant results of research and testing activities be reasonably available for publication by the University, and Sponsor acknowledges that University may publish the results of research and testing conducted in connection with this Agreement.
