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Q&A: Updating standards for collecting, reporting outcomes of lens-based surgery
14 days ago - By Healio
A guest editorial published in the Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery provided updated criteria for collecting, analyzing and reporting the outcomes of lens-based refractive surgery.
The advances in IOL technology in recent decades and the increasing demand for enhanced monofocal, extended depth of focus and multifocal IOLs call for new standards “to include distances other than far distance for efficacy, secondary endpoints and patient-reported outcomes,” the authors wrote.
Healio/OSN spoke with Filomena J. Ribeiro, MD, PhD, one of the editorial authors, to clarify the
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