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Editorial
. 2014 Jul;28(7):779-83.
doi: 10.1038/eye.2014.135.

Improving care and increasing efficiency-challenges in the care of chronic eye diseases

A Kotecha  1 , S Turner  2 , C Vasilakis  3 , M Utley  4 , N Fulop  2 , A Azuara-Blanco  5 , P J Foster  1
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Editorial

Improving care and increasing efficiency-challenges in the care of chronic eye diseases

A Kotecha et al. Eye (Lond). 2014 Jul.
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Projected weekly demand (number of patients) for an outpatient glaucoma clinic based on retrospective data obtained from Moorfields Eye Hospital glaucoma service over a 3-month period. The interval for follow-up appointment in the new clinic ranges from a single week to 12 months, and there are 10 new referrals to the clinic every week.
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