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Cataract surgery in the United Kingdom: patient characteristics, surgical patterns, and clinical outcomes in the National Health Service and a private-sector provider

To describe differences in patient population, practice patterns and outcomes between private and public setting cataract surgery. Preoperative population and clinical outcomes from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists National Ophthalmology Database study (2010 NOD; surgeries A...

Randomized Quality Improvement Trials: An Overview and Proposed Framework for Ethical Oversight

Quality improvement (QI) is a routine part of health care delivery, but ineffective QI can have unintended consequences, waste resources, and paradoxically worsen health care quality. Randomized QI (RQI) trials use randomization to assign the QI intervention to some but not all p...

Outcomes of early treatment in acute Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease: a 24-month retrospective analysis

Abstract Background To evaluate structural and functional outcomes in patients with acute Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease, based on the timing of systemic corticosteroid (CS) initiation and the early introduction of noncorticosteroid immunomodulatory therapy (IMT). Methods Thi...