Customized Clinical Practice Guidelines for Management of Adult Cataract in Iran (Clinical Practice Guidelines)

Purpose: To customize clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for cataract management in the Iranian population. Methods: First, four CPGs (American Academy of Ophthalmology 2006 and 2011, Royal College of Ophthalmologists 2010, and Canadian Ophthalmological Society 2008) were selected from a number of available CPGs in the literature for cataract management. All recommendations of these guidelines, together with their references, were studied. Each recommendation was summarized in 4 tables. The first table Clinical Practice Guidelines Correspondence to: Mohammad Ali Javadi, MD. Ophthalmic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, No. 23, Paidarfard St., Boostan 9 St., Pasdaran Ave., Tehran 16666, Iran. E‐mail: [email protected] Sare Safi , MS. Ophthalmic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, No. 23, Paidarfard St., Boostan 9 St., Pasdaran Ave., Tehran 16666, Iran. E‐mail: [email protected] Received: 10‐08‐2015 Accepted: 12‐09‐2015 Access this article online Quick Response Code: Website: www.jovr.org DOI: 10.4103/2008‐322X.176913 How to cite this article: Rajavi Z, Javadi MA, Daftarian N, Safi S, Nejat F, Shirvani A, et al. Customized clinical practice guidelines for management of adult cataract in Iran. J Ophthalmic Vis Res 2015;10:445-60. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non‐commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. For reprints contact: [email protected] [Downloaded free from http://www.jovr.org on Saturday, August 20, 2016, IP: 151.243.101.188]