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Table 1 Grading of parameters to evaluate efficacy

From: Hydrocortisone concentration influences time to clinically significant healing of acute inflammation of the ocular surface and adnexa – results from a double-blind randomized controlled trial

Signs and symptoms

Degree (=item value)

 

0

1

2

3

Symptoms

Foreign body sensation in the eye

not present

not disturbing

disturbing

painful

Itching

not present

not disturbing

disturbing

painful

Ocular pain

not present

not disturbing

disturbing

painful

Dry-eye sensation

absent

not disturbing

disturbing

intolerable

Signs

Conjunctival hyperaemia

vessel normal

some vessel definitely injected

vessels injected more than 50%

all vessels injected

Discharge (yellowish)

not present

poorly visible

clearly visible

over 2 mm thick

Watering eyes

absent

Nnot disturbing

disturbing

Iintolerable

Chemosis

not present

poorly visible

clearly visible

very strong

Red eyelids

not present

poorly visible

clearly visible

very strong

Swollen eyelids

not present

poorly visible (not disturbing)

clearly visible (disturbing)

very strong (eye opening difficult)