Ashok Vardhan, Vinoth Kumar Rajendran, Sanil Joseph, Lakshmanan Pooludaiyar, Dipankar Datta, Astrid E Fletcher, Thulasiraj D Ravilla
Eye care programs, in developing countries, are often planned using the prevalence of blindness and visual impairment, often estimated from Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB) surveys. A limitation of this planning approach is that it ignores the annual overall eye care requirements for a given population. Moreover, targets set are arbitrary, often influenced by capacity rather than need. To address this lacunae, we implemented a novel study design to estimate the annual need for comprehensive eye care in a 1...
September 2023: Indian Journal of Ophthalmology