The TFOS International Workshop on Contact Lens Discomfort: Report of the subcommittee on epidemiology

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Dumbleton, Kathy ^a   Caffery, Barbara ^b   Dogru, Murat ^c,d   Hickson Curran, Sheila ^e   Kern, Jami ^f   Kojima, Takashi ^d,g   Morgan, Philip B ^h   Purslow, Christine ⁱ   Robertson, Danielle M ^j   Nelson, J Daniel ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Private Practice   (Canada)

^c Ichikawa Hospital   (Japan)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e JOHNSON AND JOHNSON   (United States)

^f ALCON RESEARCH LTD   (United States)

^g Gifu Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^k HEALTHPARTNERS INSTITUTE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Contact lenses; Discomfort; Dry eye; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTACT LENS DISCOMFORT; DRY EYE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EYE ALLERGY; EYE CARE; EYE DISCOMFORT; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORBIDITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TEAR FILM AND OCULAR SURFACE SOCIETY;

CONTACT LENSES; DISCOMFORT; DRY EYE; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

CONTACT LENSES; DRY EYE SYNDROMES; EYE DISEASES; HUMANS; PATIENT DROPOUTS;

EID: 84886939937     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.13-13125     Document Type: Article

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