ABSTRACT A computer‐assisted subjective eye examination was administered to 78 patients as they volunteered. They were also examined in the conventional, manual way, some before and some after the computer‐assisted examination. Results of the computer‐assisted examination were compared to those obtained by conventional subjective methods. For the distance prescription, satisfactory agreement was obtained for 83% of the patients. The 17% unsatisfactory prescriptions were subdivided into about 6% avoidable errors (caused by errors in software, hardware, or optometric flow charts), about 6% errors of undetermined cause, and 4% fundamental errors (caused by patient's physical and mental impairment or confusion). A similar analysis is made for the near add. With further development of the system it is expected that between 90 and 96% of patients in an optometric clinic can be successfully examined by this computer‐assisted method.
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