AJO Editorial on Cataract Surgical Services
Posted on August 9, 2011
Topic: Eye Care, ICO Programs and Initiatives, Journal/Publication
The ICO spent two years grappling with the issue of unmet cataract surgical need and has come to conclude that, since ophthalmology “owns” cataract surgery, it also “owns” the problem of unmet cataract surgical needs.
An editorial by Drs. Alfred Sommer and Bruce Spivey in the June 2011 issue of the American Journal of Ophthalmology clearly addresses obstacles impeding needed access to cataract surgical services and considers successful approaches and ways these obstacles can be overcome.
To read the editorial, Access to Cataract Surgical Services: International Ophthalmology Accepts the Challenge go to: www.ajo.com/article/S0002-9394%2811%2900149-8/fulltext.
