Glaucoma treatment: By the highest level of evidence

The Lancet

Volumn 385, Issue 9975, 2015, Pages 1264-1266

  Heijl, Anders ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EYE DROPS; LATANOPROST; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; PROSTAGLANDIN F;

BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; GLAUCOMA; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; JAPAN; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; MONOTHERAPY; NOTE; OPHTHALMOLOGIST; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK REDUCTION; UNITED KINGDOM; VISUAL FIELD; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; MALE;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTAGLANDINS F, SYNTHETIC;

EID: 84926524604     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62347-3     Document Type: Note

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