However, the study added, frequent visual testing may not be appropriate or useful for every patient.
Researchers at Jules Stein Eye Institute assembled a low-frequency data set by deleting every other visual field test from the second year of follow-up onward and a high-frequency data set where no visual field tests were deleted.
Read the Archives of Ophthalmology report on visual tests for glaucoma detection.
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