Population-based cross-sectional study of barriers to utilisation of refraction services in South India: Rapid Assessment of Refractive Errors (RARE) study

BMJ Open

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Marmamula, Srinivas ^a,b   Keeffe, Jill E ^b,c   Raman, Usha ^a   Rao, Gullapalli N ^a  

^a L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b VISION COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 84864280651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000172     Document Type: Article

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