A study of pent-up demand in ophthalmology: Divinolândia Hospital/Unicamp

OBJECTIVE: To assess the waiting time for eye care identifying the number of patients with each complaint; to investigate how the waiting time may worsen the patient's condition; to check the screening of urgent cases for effectiveness; and to devise means of increasing the medical-surgical car...

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Main Authors: Maria Cecilia Machado, Newton Kara-José, Carlos Eduardo Leite Arieta, José Leonardo Garcia Lourenço, Regina de Souza Carvalho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Oftalmologia 2012-12-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Oftalmologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-72802012000600010&lng=en&tlng=en