Effects of an educational seminar on rejection demographics in patients presenting for laser in situ keratomileusis

Eye and Contact Lens

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 69-71

  Mendelblatt, David ^a   McCulley, James P ^a   Bowman, R Wayne ^a   Verity, Steven ^a   Cavanagh, H Dwight ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser; LASIK; Rejection; Screening; Seminar

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASTIGMATISM; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CATARACT; CHILD; CORNEA CURVATURE; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA SURGERY; CORNEA THICKNESS; DEMOGRAPHY; DRY EYE; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; KERATOMILEUSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRESBYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; REFRACTION ERROR; REVIEW; TELEPHONE; ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EYE DISEASE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 0038545482     PISSN: 15422321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ICL.0000056621.34608.2A     Document Type: Review

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