Evaluation of Cataract Surgery Outcomes at the Ban Phaeo Mobile Eye Clinic, Thailand

Ophthalmic Epidemiology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 266-273

  Thavikulwat, Alisa T ^a   Fisher, Susan G ^b,c   Thevenet Morrison, Kelly ^b   Pongtawigorn, Pornthep ^d   Ramchandran, Rajeev S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Ban Phaeo Hospital   (Thailand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cataract; cataract extraction; low vision; mobile health units; visual acuity

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ADULT; AGED; APHAKIA; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; EVALUATION STUDY; EXTRACAPSULAR CATARACT EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FOLDABLE ACRYLIC INTRAOCULAR LENS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LENS CAPSULE RUPTURE; LENS DISEASE; LENS IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETAINED LENS FRAGMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGID POLYMETHYLMETHACRYLATE INTRAOCULAR LENS; RURAL AREA; THAILAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; WOUND LEAKAGE; ZONULAR DEHISCENCE; CATARACT; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; LENS IMPLANTATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VISION, LOW;

AGED; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MOBILE HEALTH UNITS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THAILAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84938318107     PISSN: 09286586     EISSN: 17445086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09286586.2015.1009120     Document Type: Article

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