British Journal of Ophthalmology

Coverage of cataract surgery services in Nepal: results from a nationwide Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness survey

Background/aim To assess the coverage of cataract surgery services and the outcomes of surgeries including the causes of poor ...
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Publicly available multimodal large language models for ocular surface infections: benchmarking against corneal specialists in triage, diagnosis and treatment

Background/aims Ocular surface infections remain a major cause of visual loss worldwide, yet diagnosis often relies on slow ...
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Socioeconomic status, cardiovascular health and joint associations with incident cataract: a prospective study from UK Biobank

Aims To investigate the interaction and combined effects of cardiovascular health (CVH) and socioeconomic status (SES) on ...
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Platinum segments: a new platinum chain for adjustable upper eyelid loading

Correspondence to Raman Malhotra, Corneoplastic Unit, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, West Sussex. RH19 3DZ, UK; raman.malhotra{at}qvh.nhs.uk Purpose Prospective study evaluating outcomes of ...
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Intergenerational change in China’s epidemic of myopia: the impact of the social environment

5 Centre for Eye and Vision Research (CEVR), 17W Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China Purpose To explore intergenerational changes in the myopia epidemic in China in a sample ...
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Combined trabeculectomy and cataract extraction versus trabeculectomy alone in primary angle-closure glaucoma

Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan Aims: To compare the long-term efficacy and safety of combined trabeculectomy and cataract extraction ...
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Azithromycin for ocular toxoplasmosis

Department of Ophthalmology, FC Donders Institute, Academic Hospital Utrecht, Netherlands Aniki Rothova, MD, F C Donders Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Academic Hospital Utrecht, PO Box 85 ...
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Capabilities of GPT-4 in ophthalmology: an analysis of model entropy and progress towards human-level medical question answering

Background Evidence on the performance of Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4), a large language model (LLM), in the ophthalmology question-answering domain is needed. Methods We tested GPT-4 ...
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Assessment of patient burden from dry eye disease using a combination of five visual analogue scales and a radar graph: a pilot study of the PENTASCORE

Background/aims Dry eye disease (DED) questionnaires would ideally be easy and fast to answer and explore the main aspects of disease burden and satisfaction (efficacy and tolerability) with treatment ...
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Protective behaviours of near work and time outdoors in myopia prevalence and progression in myopic children: a 2-year prospective population study

Correspondence to Professor Yiing-Mei Liou, Institute of Community Health Care, School of Nursing, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 11221, Taiwan; ymliou{at}ym.edu.tw Aim To investigate the ...
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Randomised clinical trial of extended depth of focus lenses for controlling myopia progression: Outcomes from SEED LVPEI Indian Myopia Study

Purpose To determine the efficacy of extended depth of focus (EDOF) contact lenses for controlling myopia progression in children through a 1-year randomised clinical trial. Methods A total of 104 ...
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Macular microholes: pathogenesis and natural history

Aims: To study the natural history and evaluate optical coherence tomography (OCT) and the retinal thickness analyser (RTA) in patients with macular microholes. Methods: The medical records of 22 ...