Correlation of internet search enquiries, incidence of ophthalmological diseases and corneal, cataract and refractive surgical procedures

Abstract Analysis of internet search queries (ISQ) could be useful to study public interest and medical need for corneal, cataract, and refractive surgery. To date, there are preliminary data on seasonal trends in ophthalmic conditions, but only few studies correlate these data with real data from h...

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Main Authors: Mohamed Ghaly, Diana Jaber, Mario Matthaei, Claus Cursiefen, Alexander Händel, Juliane Köberlein-Neu, Robert Hörster, Sebastian Siebelmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26704-y