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ArticleEuropean journal of ophthalmology2021

Impact on refractive surgery due to increasing use of personal protection equipment: Insights from EUROCOVCAT group.

Arthur B Cummings, Cian Gildea, Antoine P Brézin, Boris E Malyugin, Ozlem Evren Kemer, Omid Kermani, Isabel Prieto, Robert Rejdak, Miguel A Teus, Daniele Tognetto and 2 more

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Article in European journal of ophthalmology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 9 institutions in 9 countries.

Arthur B CummingsWellington Eye Clinic, Dublin, Ireland.
Cian GildeaWellington Eye Clinic, Dublin, Ireland.
Antoine P BrézinUniversité de Paris, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8461-3119
Boris E MalyuginS. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Federal State Institution, Moscow, Russia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5666-3493
Ozlem Evren KemerUniversity of Health Sciences, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9480-8470
Omid KermaniAugenklinik am Neumarkt Schildergasse, Köln, Germany.
Isabel PrietoDepartment of Ophthalmology, Fernando Fonseca Hospital, Amadora, Portugal.
Robert RejdakChair and Department of General and Pediatric Ophthalmology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
Miguel A TeusDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3835-9882
Daniele TognettoEye Clinic, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
Sandrine ZweifelDepartment of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Zürich, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Mario D ToroDepartment of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Zürich, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7152-2613
University of Zurich · CHHospital Prof. Dr. Fernando Fonseca · PTIntersectoral Research and Technology Complex Eye Microsurgery · RULungenklinik Köln-Merheim · DEMedical University of Lublin · PLSağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi · TRUniversidad de Alcalá · ESUniversité Paris Cité · FRUniversity of Trieste · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic on 11th March 2020, changes to social and sanitary practices have included significant issues in access and management of eye care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, the fear of loss, coupled with social distancing, lockdown, economic instability, and uncertainty, have led to a significant psychosocial impact that will have to be addressed. In the current COVID-19 pandemic, personal protective equipment such as face masks or face coverings have become a daily necessity. While "mass masking" along with hand hygiene and social distancing became more widespread, new issues began to emerge - particularly in those who wore spectacles as a means of vision correction. As we began to see routine patients again after the first lockdown had been lifted, many patients visited our clinics for refractive surgery consultations with a primary motivating factor of wanting spectacle independence due to the fogging of their spectacles as a result of wearing a mask. In this article, we report on new emerging issues in eye care due to the widespread use of masks and on the new unmet need in the corneal and cataract refractive surgery fields.

Indexed as

COVID-19Refractive Surgical ProceduresCommunicable Disease ControlHumansPandemicsPersonal Protective EquipmentSARS-CoV-2cataract surgeryCOVID-19 pandemicfogging spectaclesLASIKMask wearingrefractive lens exchangerefractive surgery

Identifiers

PMID34041930
PMCPMC8606802
OpenAlexW3165247137

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