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Communicating with patients using cap color exclusively could lead to confusion and harm, especially when treating patients with more advanced disease.
To determine the prevalence of reticular pseudodrusen (RPD) and its association with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and AMD risk factors in a large sample.
To compare baseline characteristics, visual acuity (VA), and morphologic outcomes between eyes with retinal angiomatous proliferation (RAP) and all other eyes among patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (NVAMD) treated with anti–vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) drugs.
To determine if (1) tortuosity assessment by a computer program (ROPtool, developed at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Duke University, and licensed by FocusROP) that traces retinal blood vessels and (2) assessment by a lay reader are comparable with assessment by a panel of 3 retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) experts for remote clinical grading of vascular abnormalities such as plus disease.
To estimate the rate and geographic variation of cataract surgery that is managed jointly by ophthalmologists and optometrists in aging Americans.
To define the incidence of pseudophakic macular edema (PME) after cataract surgery and to identify contributory risk factors.
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