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• WHO urged to accept ICO Clinical Guidelines and Research Agenda
  
  
• Guidelines can contribute to global eye care
  
  
• Several Guidelines updated

• Clinical Guidelines from Royal College of Ophthalmologists
  
  
• Guidelines from the Royal Australian College

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WHO urged to accept ICO Clinical Guidelines and Research Agenda

Participants in a World Health Organization (WHO) Advisory Meeting on Research Priorities in Geneva, September 8 to 10, 2003 recommended formal acceptance by WHO of the ICO's International Clinical Guidelines and its Research Agenda for Global Blindness Prevention.

Guidelines can contribute to global eye care

The ICO's development of International Clinical Guidelines "would be a major contribution to global eye care," according to Gullapalli Rao, MD.

Dr. Rao, Secretary-General of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), spoke at a symposium on the guidelines at the XXIX International Congress of Ophthalmology in April 2002 in Sydney, Australia.

International Clinical Guidelines updated

Three of the ICO's International Clinical Guidelines have been updated since they were originally published:

• Cataract (Initial evaluation)
  
  
• Age-related Macular Degeneration (Initial and follow-up evaluation)
  
  
• Age-related Macular Degeneration (Management recommendations)

The guidelines were defined as part of implementation of the Vision for the Future, partly in response to comments from leaders of the IAPB that such guidelines would be extremely useful in implementation of the VISION 2020: The Right to Sight initiative.

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Clinical Guidelines from Royal College of Ophthalmologists

Various clinical guidelines are also available from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists of the United Kingdom.

These include guidelines on:

• Cataract Surgery (PDF - 240 KB)
  
  
• Diabetic Retinopathy (PDF - 436 KB)
  
  
• Laser Refractive Surgery (PDF - 64 KB)
  
  
• Retinal Vein Occlusion (PDF - 144 KB)

Guidelines from the Royal Australian College

"Clinical Practice Guidelines for Specialists in the Eye Health of Indigenous Australians" were included in Vision for the Future — International Ophthalmology Strategic Plan to Preserve and Restore Vision.

Developed by the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists and published in 2001, the Guidelines cover cataract, diabetic reinopathy and trachoma.

The section of Vision for the Future that contains the Guidelines is available as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file (932KB). To read it, you will need Adobe Reader, which is a free download.

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