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

• Главные авторы: Shaheen P Shah (Автор), Claire E Gilbert (Автор), Hessom Razavi (Автор), Elizabeth L Turner (Автор), Robert J Lindfield (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: The World Health Organization, 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...