Uncorrected refractive error in the Australian National Eye Health Survey

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany.

Editorial

Paul N Baird et al. Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2020 Jan.

. 2020 Jan;48(1):9-11.

doi: 10.1111/ceo.13698.

¹ Department of Surgery, Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany.

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Prevalence, associations and characteristics of severe uncorrected refractive error in the Australian National Eye Health Survey.
Keel S, McGuinness MB, Foreman J, Scheetz J, Taylor HR, Dirani M. Keel S, et al. Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2020 Jan;48(1):14-23. doi: 10.1111/ceo.13647. Epub 2019 Oct 16. Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2020. PMID: 31574581

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