Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 33, Issue 5 , Pages 225-227 , October 2010

Daily disposable contact lens prescribing around the world

  • Nathan Efron

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, and 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 N2L 3G1, Canada
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  • Jason J. Nichols

      Affiliations

    • College of Optometry, The Ohio State University, 320 W. 10th Ave., 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 N2L 3G1, Canada

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  6. Dumbleton K, Richter D, Woods C, Jones L, Fonn D. Compliance with contact lens replacement in Canada and the United States. Optom Vis Sci. 2010;87:131–139
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  9. Morgan PB, Efron N, Helland M, Itoi M, Jones D, Nichols J, et al. Demographics of international contact lens prescribing. Contact Lens Ant Eye. 2010;33:27–29
  10. Efron N, Efron SE, Morgan PB, Morgan SL. A ‘cost-per-wear’ model based on contact lens replacement frequency. Clin Exp Optom; in press.

PII: S1367-0484(10)00061-5

doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2010.06.003

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 33, Issue 5 , Pages 225-227 , October 2010

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