Initial two years of experience with the aao National Eyecare Outcomes Network (NEON) cataract surgery database

Ophthalmology

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 691-697

  Lum, Flora ^a   Schein, Oliver ^b   Schachat, Andrew P ^b   Abbott, Richard L ^c   Hoskins Jr , H Dunbar ^a   Steinberg, Earl P ^d  

^a American Academy of Ophthalmology   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; HUMAN; LENS IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; CATARACT EXTRACTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LENSES, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; REGISTRIES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0034080825     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(99)00184-0     Document Type: Article

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