Prognostic indicators and outcome measures for surgical removal of symptomatic nonadvanced cataract

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 129, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1155-1161

  Charalampidou, Sofia ^a,c   Loughman, James ^b,e,g   Nolan, John ^a,b   Stack, Jim ^b   Cassidy, Lorraine ^d,f   Pesudovs, Konrad ^h   Beatty, Stephen ^a,b  

^a Institute of Vision Research   (Ireland)

^b Ireland   (Ireland)

^c Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute   (Ireland)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^f ROYAL VICTORIA EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^g University of KwaZulu Natal Faculty of Health Sciences   (South Africa)

^h FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GLARE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESOPIC VISION; OPTICAL DENSITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RASCH ANALYSIS; READING; SELF REPORT; UNITED KINGDOM; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATARACT; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOPHAKIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 80052787596     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2011.111     Document Type: Article

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