Quality-of-life improvements in cataract patients with bilateral blue light-filtering intraocular lenses: Clinical trial

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1952-1959

  Espindle, Derek ^a,e   Crawford, Bruce ^a   Maxwell, Andrew ^b   Rajagopalan, Krithika ^c   Barnes, Rod ^d   Harris, Blake ^d   Hileman, Kendra ^d  

^a MAPI VALUES   (United States)

^b California Eye Institute   (United States)

^c ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^d ALCON RESEARCH LTD   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LENS IMPLANT; LENS IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENTAL HEALTH; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UNITED STATES; VISION;

AGED; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LENSES, INTRAOCULAR; LIGHT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; VISION;

EID: 28844492135     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2005.03.060     Document Type: Article

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