Use of Various Glaucoma Surgeries and Procedures in Medicare Beneficiaries from 1994 to 2012

Ophthalmology

Volumn 122, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1615-1624

  Arora, Karun S ^a,b   Robin, Alan L ^a,c,d,f   Corcoran, Kevin J ^e   Corcoran, Suzanne L ^e   Ramulu, Pradeep Y ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANT; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HUMAN; IRIDECTOMY; IRIDOTOMY; LASER COAGULATION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT HISTORY OF SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR FORMATION; TRABECULECTOMY; TRABECULOPLASTY; AGED; CILIARY BODY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; MALE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES (U.S.); CILIARY BODY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; HUMANS; IRIDECTOMY; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MEDICARE PART B; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRABECULECTOMY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84937725890     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2015.04.015     Document Type: Article

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