A sustainable model for delivering high-quality, efficient cataract surgery in southern India

Health Affairs

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1783-1790

  Le, Hong Gam ^a   Ehrlich, Joshua R ^b,c   Venkatesh, Rengaraj ^d   Srinivasan, Aravind ^e   Kolli, Ajay ^f   Haripriya, Aravind ^e   Ravindran, R D ^e   Thulasiraj, R D ^e   Robin, Alan L ^b,f,g,h   Hutton, David W ^c,h   Stein, Joshua D ^b,c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d ARAVIND EYE HOSPITAL   (India)

^e ARAVIND EYE CARE SYSTEM   (India)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; EYE CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INDIA; LOW VISION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATING ROOM; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM COST EFFECTIVENESS; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; LENS IMPLANTATION; MALE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BLINDNESS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INDIA; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS;

EID: 84994381470     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.0562     Document Type: Article

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