A two-site, population-based study of barriers to cataract surgery in rural China

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1069-1075

  Yin, Qiuxia ^a   Hu, Ailian ^b   Liang, Yuanbo ^b   Zhang, Jian ^a   He, Mingguang ^a   Lam, Dennis S C ^c   Ge, Jian ^a   Wang, Ningli ^b   Friedman, David S ^d   Zhao, Jialiang ^e   Congdon, Nathan ^c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; MULTICENTER STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHINA; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 62649175351     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2783     Document Type: Article

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