Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 33, Issue 3 , Pages 141-143 , June 2010

International rigid contact lens prescribing

  • Nathan Efron

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, School of Optometry, Queensland University of Technology, 60 Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove, Queensland 4059, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 7 3138 6401; fax: +61 7 3319 6974.
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  • Philip B. Morgan

      Affiliations

    • Eurolens Research, The University of Manchester, Moffat Building, P.O. Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, United Kingdom
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  • Magne Helland

      Affiliations

    • Department of Optometry and Visual Science, Buskerud University College, P.O. Box 235, N-3603 Kongsberg, Norway
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  • Motozumi Itoi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ophthalmology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Hongo 3-1-3, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8431, Japan
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  • Deborah Jones

      Affiliations

    • School of Optometry, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
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  • Jason J. Nichols

      Affiliations

    • College of Optometry, The Ohio State University, 320 W. 10th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1280, United States
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  • Eef van der Worp

      Affiliations

    • University of Maastricht, P. Debijelaan 25, 6202 AZ, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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  • Craig A. Woods

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Contact Lens Research, School of Optometry, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1

References 

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  2. Morgan PB, Efron N, Hill EA, Raynor MK, Whiting MA, Tullo AB. Incidence of keratitis of varying severity among contact lens wearers. Br J Ophthalmol. 2005;89:430–436
  3. Morgan PB, Efron N, Helland M, Itoi M, Jones D, Nichols J, et al. Demographics of international contact lens prescribing. Contact Lens Ant Eye, in press; 33.
  4. Efron N. Why GP lenses are on the decline. Contact Lens Spectrum. 2009;24(8):17
  5. van der Worp E. What GP decline?. Contact Lens Spectrum. 2009;24(8):16

PII: S1367-0484(09)00156-8

doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2009.11.005

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 33, Issue 3 , Pages 141-143 , June 2010