Preoperative visual acuity among cataract surgery patients and countries' state of development: a global study

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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Main Authors: Shaheen P Shah, Claire E Gilbert, Hessom Razavi, Elizabeth L Turner, Robert J Lindfield
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2011-10-01
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

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