Diabetic Retinopathy: Prevention and Screening Dean Eliott MD Yoshihiro Yonekawa MD I. DIABETES CONTROL AND COMPLICATIONS TRIAL Introduction Long-term microvascular and neurologic complications cause considerable morbidity and mortality in patients…
Glaucoma: Clinical Trials in Glaucoma Therapy Daniel Warder MD Robert J. Campbell MD, MSc, FRCSC Glaucoma, with its characteristic optic nerve pathology and associated visual field (VF) defects, results from…
Anterior Segment: Cornea and External Diseases Ayad A. Farjo MD Qais A. Farjo MD Herpes Simplex Virus Eye Disease of the Anterior Segment Introduction and Epidemiology Herpes simplex virus type…
Refractive Surgery Patrick T. Yang MD Louis E. Probst MD Clara C. Chan MD, FRCSC, FACS Refractive surgery has at least two unique characteristics when compared with the other subspecialties…
Biostatistics Simon Hollands MD, MSc (Epid) Sanjay Sharma MD, MS (Epid), FRCSC, MBA Hussein Hollands MD, FRCSC, MSc (Epid) Introduction In Chapter 1 various study designs were discussed in order…
Health Economics Hussein Hollands MD, FRCSC, MSc (Epid) Sanjay Sharma MD, MS (Epid), FRCSC, MBA Introduction Economic evaluation in medicine has the potential to greatly influence policy decisions in both…
Clinical Epidemiology Hussein Hollands MD, FRCSC, MSc (Epid) Simon Hollands MD, MSc (Epid) Sanjay Sharma MD, MS (Epid), FRCSC, MBA Introduction It is now commonplace for physicians and patients to…
Introduction to Outcome Analysis and Office-Based Clinical Research Richard M. Rosenfeld The American psychiatrist Philip Bonnet once noted, “The patient is always the ultimate source of knowledge.” Consequently, every clinical…
Chemotherapy Jerome S. Schwartz Gady Har-El Frank DiPillo Chemotherapy, the management of disease with chemical substances, is used to manage primary as well as recurrent cancers. It can be used…
Radiation Therapy Jerome S. Schwartz Gady Har-El Hassan Aziz Radiation therapy is based on directed ionizing radiation used to manage malignant and, occasionally, benign tumors. Radiation therapy can be used…
