Time-trend and variations in the proportion of second-eye cataract surgery

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hoffmeister, Lorena ^a   Román, Rubén ^a   Comas, Mercè ^a   Cots, Francesc ^a   Bernal Delgado, Enrique ^b   Castells, Xavier ^a  

^a Del Mar University   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO ARAGONÉS DE CIENCIAS DE LA SALUD   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPAIN; TIME; TREATMENT DURATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; MIDDLE AGED; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CATARACT EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34247566684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-7-53     Document Type: Article

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