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Changing trends of blindness, visual impairment and cataract surgery in Bhutan: 2009–2018

PURPOSE: To obtain new rapid assessment of avoidable blindness (RAAB) data on the prevalence, causes and trends of blindness, visual impairment and cataract surgery; and compare the new 2018 data with the older RAAB 2009 data. METHODOLOGY: The second nationwide RAAB used android based mRAAB techniqu...

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Autores principales:	Lepcha, Nor Tshering, Sharma, Indra Prasad, Sapkota, Yuddha Dhoj, Das, Taraprasad, Phuntsho, Tshering, Tenzin, Ngawang, Shamanna, Bindiganavale Ramaswamy, Peldon, Sonam
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2019
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6508732/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31071127 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216398

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