Uncorrected refractive error and presbyopia: accommodating the unmet need
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BACKGROUND The World Health Organization (WHO) definitions of blindness and visual impairment are widely based on best-corrected visual acuity excluding uncorrected refractive errors (URE) as a visual impairment cause. Recently, URE was included as a cause of visual impairment, thus emphasizing the burden of visual impairment due to refractive error (RE) worldwide is substantially higher. The p...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2006.112862