Epidemiology of postoperative visual loss for non-ocular surgery in a cohort of inpatients

John C Lin^{1

2}, Dustin D French², Curtis E Margo³, Paul B Greenberg^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Program in Liberal Medical Education, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
² Department of Ophthalmology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
³ Departments of Ophthalmology and Pathology, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
⁴ Division of Ophthalmology, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. paul_greenberg@brown.edu.
⁵ Section of Ophthalmology, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, RI, USA. paul_greenberg@brown.edu.

John C Lin et al. Eye (Lond). 2022 Jun.

. 2022 Jun;36(6):1323-1325.

doi: 10.1038/s41433-021-01791-9. Epub 2021 Nov 19.

John C Lin^{1

2}, Dustin D French², Curtis E Margo³, Paul B Greenberg^{4

5}

¹ Program in Liberal Medical Education, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
² Department of Ophthalmology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
³ Departments of Ophthalmology and Pathology, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
⁴ Division of Ophthalmology, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. paul_greenberg@brown.edu.
⁵ Section of Ophthalmology, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, RI, USA. paul_greenberg@brown.edu.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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