Ophthalmic Epidemiology

Book Description:

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.

Table of Contents:

Preface

About the Editors

List of Contributors

PART I: CURRENT AND FUTURE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO OPHTHALMOLOGY

1. Use of Electronic Health Records, Disease Registries, and Health Insurance Databases in Ophthalmology

Rachel Marjorie Tseng Wei Wen, Grace May Chuang, Zhi Da Soh, and Yih- Chung Tham

2. Application of Mobile and Wearable Technology in Data Collection for Ophthalmology

Ashwin Venkatesh and Pradeep Ramulu

3. Telemedicine in Ophthalmology

Jane Scheetz, Samantha Simkin, Zachary Tan, Shuan Dai, and Mingguang He

4. Biochemical Markers in Ophthalmology

Abdus Samad Ansari and Pirro G. Hysi

5. Statistical Methods for Big Data

Emmanuel Kemel, Alexandre Thiery, and Simon Nusinovici

6. Common Statistical Issues in Ophthalmic Research

Catey Bunce and Gabriela Czanner

PART II: UPDATES ON EPIDEMIOLOGY OF EYE DISEASES

7. Refractive Errors, Myopia, and Presbyopia

Ka Wai Kam, Chi Pui Pang, and Jason C. S. Yam

8. Corneal Disorders

Darren S. J. Ting, Rashmi Deshmukh, Daniel S. W. Ting, and Marcus Ang

9. Dry- Eye Disease

Fiona Stapleton and Revathy Mani

10. Cataract and Cataract Surgical Coverage

Olusola Olawoye, Priya Adhisesha Reddy, Ving Fai Chan, Prabhath Piyasena, and Nathan Congdon

11. Glaucoma

Zhi Da Soh, Victor Koh, and Ching- Yu Cheng

12. Age- Related Macular Degeneration

Jost B. Jonas and Songhomitra Panda- Jonas

13. Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy

Shinji Ono and Yasuo Yanagi

14. Diabetic Retinopathy

Charumathi Sabanayagam and Tien Yin Wong

15. Non- DR Retinal Vascular Diseases

Sobha Sivaprasad, Luke Nicholson, and Shruti Chandra

16. Uveitis

De- Kuang Hwang and Yih- Shiou Hwang

17. Ocular Tumors

Vishal Raval, Alexander Melendez, Hansell Soto, Allexya Affonso, Rubens Belfort Neto, and Arun D. Singh

PART III: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL METHODS FOR EVALUATION AND INTERVENTION

18. Systematic Review and Meta- Analysis

Gianni Virgili, Jennifer Evans, and Tianjing Li

19. Assessment of Vision- Related Quality of Life

Eva K. Fenwick, Preeti Gupta, and Ryan E. K. Man

20. Screening Programs

Jakob Grauslund and Malin Lundberg Rasmussen

21. Community Intervention Trials in Eye Health

Ving Fai Chan, Prabhath Piyasena, Priya Adhisesha Reddy, Olusola Olawoye, and Nathan Congdon

Index