Journal of cataract and refractive surgery
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J Cataract Refract Surg · Jan 2012
Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative StudyInformed consent for cataract surgery: patient understanding of verbal, written, and videotaped information.
To determine the effectiveness of verbal, written, and videotaped descriptions of cataract surgery on patients' understanding of the risks, benefits, and treatment alternatives. ⋯ Concise informed consent information sheets at lower reading grade levels and videotape presentation optimized patient understanding of the risks, benefits, and treatment alternatives to cataract surgery. The cost-benefit of these results is important because better patient understanding has the potential to decrease the risk for indemnity payments awarded because of inadequate informed consent.
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J Cataract Refract Surg · Oct 2011
Influence of surgery simulator training on ophthalmology resident phacoemulsification performance.
To determine whether the use of an eye-surgery simulator during ophthalmology residency training improves cataract surgery performance. ⋯ No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.
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J Cataract Refract Surg · Jun 2011
Comparative StudyCharacterizing the learning curve in phacoemulsification.
To characterize how residents learn phacoemulsification and determine which steps of the procedure are most difficult to master. ⋯ No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.
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Patient-reported outcome is an important part of the evaluation of a surgical procedure. Numerous questionnaires for patient's self-assessed activity limitation because of cataract have been published. ⋯ This review evaluates the psychometric properties of patient questionnaires that have been published since 1992. The evaluation includes questionnaires constructed according to classical test theory and item-response theory.