Projecting the growth of cataract surgery during the next 25 years

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 130, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1479-1481

  Hatch, Wendy V ^a   Campbell, Erica De L ^c   Bell, Chaim M ^a,b,d   El Defrawy, Sherif R ^c   Campbell, Robert J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; HUMAN; LETTER; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION;

CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; FORECASTING; HUMANS; ONTARIO; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84869122795     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2012.838     Document Type: Letter

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