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Access to Eye CareResponse of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Its Members to Societal Needs Now and in the Future
Paul P. Lee, MD, JD;
H. Dunbar Hoskins Jr, MD;
Ronald E. Smith, MD;
B. Thomas Hutchinson, MD;
Brad A. Wong, MA
Arch Ophthalmol. 2007;125(3):403-405.
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INTRODUCTION
Access to health care has been traditionally viewed as the ability to see a physician or to be hospitalized if necessary in the presence of a health state that may benefit from care in prevention, treatment, amelioration, or palliation. Information from national databases such as the National Ambulatory Care Medical Survey reporting on samples of visits from physician offices around the United States1-2 or from the Medicare claims data3 provides valuable insight about the status of eye care use in the United States, particularly for adults. National Ambulatory Care Medical Survey data from 2004 (the most recent year available) show that there were 47.3 million visits (SE of estimate, ±7.0 million visits) across all age groups to ophthalmologists' nonhospital-based offices, constituting 5.2% of all such visits and a . . . [Full Text of this Article]
AUTHOR INFORMATION
Author Affiliations: Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University, Durham, NC (Dr Lee); American Academy of Ophthalmology (Dr Hoskins), Foundation of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (Drs Smith and Hutchinson and Mr Wong), and EyeCare America (Dr Hutchinson), San Francisco, Calif; Department of Ophthalmology, Doheny Eye Institute, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles (Dr Smith); and Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston, Boston, Mass (Dr Hutchinson).
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