1Brien Holden Vision Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Supplemental Digital Content: The Appendix, available at https://links.lww.com/OPX/A392, is the subjective vision questionnaire used in the two clinical trials.
Submitted: May 18, 2018
Accepted: December 26, 2018
Funding/Support: None.
Conflict of Interest Disclosure: This project was funded by the Brien Holden Vision Institute, which has proprietary interests in the intellectual property governing extended depth-of-focus contact lenses (patent application number WO2014059465 A1). Brien Holden Vision Institute also receives royalties from the sale of Alcon multifocal contact lenses. Extended depth-of-focus and Alcon multifocal lenses were used in obtaining data for this nonproduct comparison study. All authors are employed by the Brien Holden Vision Institute.
Study Registration Information: Both trials were registered on the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12615000652572, ACTRN12614000011684) and the U.S. clinical trials registry (NCT02484586, NCT02214797).
Author Contributions and Acknowledgments: Conceptualization: DT, JD, RCB; Data Curation: JS, VT; Formal Analysis: MJ, VT; Investigation: MJ, DT; Methodology: VT, RCB; Project Administration: RCB; Validation: MJ; Visualization: MJ, RCB; Writing – Original Draft: MJ; Writing – Review & Editing: MJ, DT, JS, JD, VT, RCB.
The authors would like to thank the clinical team (Ms. E. Robertson and Ms. B. Ludlow, D. Kho, C. Bishop, A. Munro, S. Delaney, J. Chung, J. Ozkan) and the database management team (Dr. T. Naduvilath and Ms. K. Laarakkers) for their invaluable support to run this trial at the Clinical Research Trials Centre, Brien Holden Vision Institute, Sydney, Australia.
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