To determine the refractive surgery preferences of ophthalmologists worldwide, questionnaires were sent to 8920 members of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. A total of 1174 questionnaires was returned by the deadline. The practice distribution included 30.0% cataract surgeons, 47.3% comprehensive ophthalmologists, 14.4% refractive surgery (RS) specialists, 4.5% corneal/external disease specialists, 1.9% glaucoma specialists, and <1% retinal/oculoplastics/pediatrics/neurophthalmologists/researchers/retired. Responses were compared with those in the 2001 and 2002 surveys and demonstrate that RS practice patterns continue to evolve.
Magill Research Center for Vision Correction, Storm Eye Institute, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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☆ Presented in part at the ASCRS Symposium on Cataract, IOL and Refractive Surgery, San Francisco, California, USA, April 2003.
☆☆ Supported in part by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Fairfax, Virginia; NIH EYO14793; and an unrestricted grant to MUSC-SEI from Research to Prevent Blindness, New York, New York, USA.
★ None of the auhors has a financial or proprietary interest in any product mentioned.
★★ Oday Al Sarraf and James P. Byrnes contributed to the study.
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