The truth about compliance

Contact Lens and Anterior Eye

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 79-86

  Efron, Nathan ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

compliance; contact lens; cost; education; patient; personality; practitioner

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344463652     PISSN: 13670484     EISSN: 14765411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1367-0484(97)80002-1     Document Type: Editorial

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