A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that clinicians vastly overprepare patients for cataract procedures, driving up costs dramatically. Researchers conclude that 53 percent ...
Although routine preoperative testing is not indicated for patients undergoing cataract surgery, researchers at UC San Francisco have found that it is still a common occurrence and is driven primarily ...
Welcome to another edition of CEDARS/ASPENS Debates. CEDARS/ASPENS is a joint society of cornea, cataract and refractive surgery specialists, here to discuss some of the latest hot topics in ...
WASHINGTON — Space shuttle science may soon come to an eye doctor near you: Researchers are using a NASA gadget to finally tell if a cataract is brewing before someone's vision clouds over. It's ...
(HealthDay News) — Many patients still undergo preoperative testing before cataract surgery despite recommendations against it, according to a study published in the April 16 issue of the New England ...
Requiring patients to get blood work and other tests before undergoing cataract surgery hasn’t been recommended for more than a dozen years. There’s good reason for that: The eye surgery generally ...
Real-Life Vision Test (RLVT) is a newly developed performance-based measures of functional vision. This present study is designed to determine whether it could be a meaningful assessment for cataract ...
More than 20 million Americans have cataracts, a leading cause of vision loss and blindness, and right now surgery is the only available option to correct the problem. But new research raises the hope ...
It wasn’t that long ago that cataract surgery meant two or three days in the hospital. Not so today. Cataract surgery is the most common type of elective surgical procedure done on Medicare patients.
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a recent blog, I described the three stakeholders in any new medical offering: the patient, the doctor and ...
Although routine preoperative testing is not indicated for patients undergoing cataract surgery, researchers at UC San Francisco have found that it is still a common occurrence and is driven primarily ...
Although routine preoperative testing is not indicated for patients undergoing cataract surgery, researchers at UC San Francisco have found that it is still a common occurrence and is driven primarily ...
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