Surgical undertreatment of glaucoma in black beneficiaries of Medicare

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 253-256

  Devgan, Uday ^a   Yu, Fei ^a,b   Kim, Eric ^c   Coleman, Anne L ^a  

^a JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRABECULECTOMY; TRABECULOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033951713     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.118.2.253     Document Type: Article

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