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. 2023 Aug 1;141(8):796-798.
doi: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2023.2710.

Forecasting Retirement in Pediatric Ophthalmology

Arsalan Akbar Ali  1 , Jack Healy  1 , Muhammad Z Chauhan  2 , Abdelrahman M Elhusseiny  2 , Akash Kakkilaya  3 , Praneeth Kalva  4 , Paul H Phillips  2
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Forecasting Retirement in Pediatric Ophthalmology

Arsalan Akbar Ali et al. JAMA Ophthalmol. .
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Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study uses a forecasting model to assess the potential loss of pediatric ophthalmology care in the US due to potential ophthalmologist retirement.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

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Figure.
Figure.. Pediatric Ophthalmology Years in Practice by Distribution of Years and States
Databases did not identify pediatric ophthalmologists in North Dakota and Vermont, and those states were thus excluded. Geographic regions were defined as follows: Northeast includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania; Midwest includes Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota; South includes Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas; and West includes Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington. The map shows the state distributions in the continental US although Alaska and Hawaii were included in the analysis in the West region. We found 3 specialists in Alaska and 7 in Hawaii.
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