Preoperative visual acuity among cataract surgery patients and countries' state of development: A global study;Acuité visuelle pré-opératoire des patients subissant une opeacute;ration de la cataracte et eacute;tat de deacute;veloppement des pays une eacute;tude mondiale

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 749-756

  Shah, Shaheen P ^a   Gilbert, Claire E ^a   Razavi, Hessom ^a   Turner, Elizabeth L ^a   Lindfielda, Robert J ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; DISEASE TREATMENT; EYE DISEASE; GLOBALIZATION; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POVERTY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 80053492360     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.10.080366     Document Type: Article

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