Refractive surgery trends and practice style changes in germany over a 3-year period

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 202-208

  Schmack, Ingo ^a   Auffarth, Gerd U ^a   Epstein, Daniel ^b   Holzer, Mike P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVICE; EXCIMER LASER; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GERMANY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCISION; KERATOMETRY; KERATOMILEUSIS; LASER EPITHELIAL KERATOMILEUSIS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHAKIC INTRAOCULAR LENS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; RETINA DETACHMENT; SURGEON; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREND STUDY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

GERMANY; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFRACTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77949378408     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597X-20090515-05     Document Type: Article

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