PIMS (Positioning In Macular hole Surgery) trial - a multicentre interventional comparative randomised controlled clinical trial comparing face-down positioning, with an inactive face-forward position on the outcome of surgery for large macular holes: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Trials

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Pasu, Saruban ^a   Bunce, Catey ^a   Hooper, Richard ^b   Thomson, Ann ^b   Bainbridge, James ^a  

^a MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FACE DOWN POSITIONING; HUMAN; INACTIVE FACE FORWARD POSITION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINA MACULA HOLE; RETINA SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; WELLBEING; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PRONE POSITION; RETINAL PERFORATIONS; SUPINE POSITION; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRONE POSITION; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETINAL PERFORATIONS; SUPINE POSITION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84946923636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-015-1048-8     Document Type: Article

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