Ophthalmic Epidemiology

This book provides a comprehensive guide to graduate students, ophthalmologists, and researchers in ophthalmic epidemiology. It covers recently developed new methodologies, technologies and resources in ocular epidemiological research, such as telemedicine, disease registries, EMR, bio-banks and omics.

Auteur

Ching-Yu Cheng, MD, MPH, PhD

Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

Principal Clinician Scientist, Singapore Eye Research Institute

Senior Clinician Scientist, Singapore National Eye Centre

Tien Y Wong, MD, PhD

Arthur Lim Professor of Ophthalmology

Medical Director, Singapore National Eye Centre

Chairman, Singapore Eye Research Institute

Vice Dean, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

Texte du rabat

Ophthalmic Epidemiology: Current Concepts to Digital Strategies provides a comprehensive guide to graduate students, ophthalmologists, and researchers in ophthalmic epidemiology. It covers recently developed new methodologies, technologies and resources in ocular epidemiological research, such as telemedicine, disease registries, EMR, bio-banks and omics. This book also summarizes recent epidemiological findings and provides up-to-date data on ocular diseases. Furthermore, it introduces and discusses the uses of epidemiology in the evaluation of health services and population screening programs and reviews the application of epidemiology in intervention trials in the communities. Key Features

• Comprehensive guide to the epidemiology of common eye diseases.

• Provides updates on the prevalence and risk factors of eye diseases.

• Outlines how epidemiological techniques can be utilized to evaluate ophthalmic health services and programs.

Contenu

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART 1: Current and Future Epidemiological Approaches to Ophthalmology

Chapter 1. Use of Electronic Health Records, Disease Registries, and Health Insurance Databases in Ophthalmology
Rachel Marjorie Wei Wen Tseng, Grace May Chuang, Zhi Da Soh, Yih-Chung Tham

Chapter 2. Application of Mobile and Wearable Technology in Data collection for Ophthalmology
Ashwin Venkatesh, Pradeep Ramulu

Chapter 3. Telemedicine in Ophthalmology
Jane Scheetz, Samantha Simkin, Zachary Tan, Shuan Dai, Mingguang He

Chapter 4. Biochemical Markers in Ophthalmology
Abdus Samad Ansari, Pirro G. Hysi

Chapter 5. Statistical Methods for Big Data
Emmanuel Kemel, Alexandre Thiery, Simon Nusinovici

Chapter 6. Common Statistical Issues in Ophthalmic Research
Catey Bunce, Gabriela Czanner

PART 2: Updates on Epidemiology of Eye Diseases

Chapter 7. Refractive Errors, Myopia and Presbyopia
Ka Wai Kam, Chi Pui Pang, Jason C. S. Yam

Chapter 8. Corneal Disorders
Darren Ting, Rashmi Deshmukh, Daniel Ting, Marcus Ang

Chapter 9. Dry Eye Disease
Fiona Stapleton, Revathy Mani

Chapter 10. Cataract and Cataract Surgical Coverage
Olusola Olawoye, Priya Adhisesha Reddy, Ving Fai Chan, Prabhath Piyasena, Nathan Congdon

Chapter 11. Glaucoma
Zhi Da Soh, Victor Koh, Ching-Yu Cheng

Chapter 12. Age-related Macular Degeneration
Jost B. Jonas, Songhomitra Panda-Jonas

Chapter 13. Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy
Shinji Ono, Yasuo Yanagi

Chapter 14. Diabetic Retinopathy
Charumathi Sabanayagam, Tien Yin Wong

Chapter 15. Non-DR Retinal Vascular Disease
Sobha Sivaprasad, Luke Nicholson, Shruti Chandra

Chapter 16. Uveitis
De-Kuang Hwang, Yih-Shiou Hwang

Chapter 17. Ocular Tumors
Vishal Raval, Alexander Melendez, Hansell Soto, Alléxya Affonso, Rubens Belfort Neto, Arun D. Singh

PART 3: Epidemiological Methods for Evaluation and Intervention

Chapter 18. Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Gianni Virgili, Tianjing Li, Jennifer Evans

Chapter 19. Assessment of Vision-Related Quality of Life
Eva K. Fenwick, Preeti Gupta, Ryan E.K. Man

Chapter 20. Screening Programs
Jakob Grauslund, Malin Lundberg Rasmussen

Chapter 21. Community Intervention Trials in Eye Health
Ving Fai Chan, Prabhath Piyasena, Priya Adhisesha Reddy, Olusola Olawoye, Nathan Congdon