Trends in cataract surgery and postoperative endophthalmitis in Western Australia (1980-1998): The endophthalmitis population study of Western Australia

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 213-219

  Semmens, James B ^a   Li, Jianghong ^a   Morlet, Nigel ^b   Ng, Jonathon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cataract surgery; Endophthalmitis; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ELDERLY CARE; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EXTRACAPSULAR CATARACT EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRACAPSULAR CATARACT EXTRACTION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CATARACT EXTRACTION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION;

EID: 0037815276     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9071.2003.00647.x     Document Type: Article

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