Medical malpractice predictors and risk factors for ophthalmologists performing LASIK and PRK surgery

Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society

Volumn 101, Issue , 2003, Pages 239-274

  Abbott, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INSURANCE; KERATOMILEUSIS; LAW SUIT; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MARKETING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OPERATION DURATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTOMETRY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; ADVERTISING; DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE, LIABILITY; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; LIABILITY, LEGAL; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTOMETRY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE MANAGEMENT; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 1142274402     PISSN: 00659533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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