Preoperative visual acuity among cataract surgery patients and countries' state of development: a global study
OBJECTIVE: To describe the preoperative surgical case mix among patients undergoing cataract extraction and explore associations between case mix, country level of development (as measured by the Human Development Index, HDI) and cataract surgery rates (CSRs). METHODS: Ophthalmologists in 50 countri...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The World Health Organization
2011-10-01
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| Series: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization |
| Online Access: | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862011001000014&lng=en&tlng=en |