Compliance and patching and atropine amblyopia treatments
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چکیده
In the past 20 years, there has been a great advancement in knowledge pertaining to compliance with amblyopia treatments. The occlusion dose monitor introduced quantitative monitoring methods in patching, which sparked our initial understanding of the dose-response relationship for patching amblyopia treatment. This review focuses on current compliance knowledge and the impact it has on patching and atropine amblyopia treatment.
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Impact of patching and atropine treatment on the child and family in the amblyopia treatment study.
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''Compliance and patching and atropine amblyopia treatments " – Reply to Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, I would like to thank Drs. Loudon, Tjiam, and Simonsz for their constructive criticism of my review article entitled ''Compliance and patching and atropine amblyopia treatments " (Wang, 2015). As noted in their letter, several summary conclusions in this review article that were derived fr...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Vision Research
دوره 114 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015