[visionlist] RE: OVS Call for Papers - Special Vision-related Quality of Life Issue

[Optometry & Vision Science]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Optometry and Vision Science, is soliciting papers for a Feature Issue 

"Vision-related Quality of Life"

Deadline for submission October 1, 2006.

A feature issue provides the opportunity for your work to be published
alongside similar subject matter. Past feature issues of OVS have included a
number of important and highly-cited papers. For example, the 20 or so papers
published in the 1999 feature issues on myopia have been cited well over 400
times.

Patient-centered assessments of vision have become standard supplements to
vision tests in clinical trials, with these instruments gaining importance as
main outcome measures. With a developing research focus, these instruments
are evolving from relatively simple measures to increasingly discriminatory,
reliable and valid ones. It is intended for the feature issue to include a
broad spectrum of topics associated with vision-related quality of life,
including:

* the development and validation of questionnaires that quantify
vision-related quality of life, visual disability and/or visual symptoms

* studies which demonstrate benefits of contemporary methodologies for
questionnaire design and development e.g. Rasch analysis, item banking,
computer adaptive testing

* a comparison or assessment of questionnaires that quantify vision-related
quality of life, visual disability and/or visual symptoms 

* the relationship between questionnaire scores and clinical vision tests or
task performance

* the use of quality of life measures as outcome measures in clinical
research and clinical trials

* the use of quality of life measures as clinical tools for the practitioner.

Manuscripts must be submitted online at ovs.edmgr.com and should be prepared
according to the instructions to authors at this web site. Indicate that your
paper is being submitted for this feature issue. 

Manuscripts will be subjected to peer review under the editorial leadership
of David Elliott, with Trudy Mallinson and Konrad Pesudovs serving as
Co-Editors.

Please contact the Editorial Office (ovs at osu.edu) if you have any questions.

Tony Adams, OD, PhD
Editor-in-Chief 
Optometry and Vision Science
Berkeley, CA