TY - JOUR PY - 2019// TI - Association of cataract surgery with driving safety and falls-reply JO - JAMA ophthalmology A1 - Schlenker, Matthew B. A1 - Thiruchelvam, Deva A1 - Redelmeier, Donald A. SP - 585 EP - 586 VL - 137 IS - 5 N2 -
In Reply We thank Dr Desapriya for the letter regarding our article, “Association of Cataract Surgery With Traffic Crashes.” We agree in the value of population-based research in providing a comprehensive, longitudinal, patient-level, self-matched analysis of important clinical outcomes, such as traffic crashes and falls. We also agree that many factors beyond impaired vision can contribute to adverse incidents and cataract surgery can only improve vision, contrast sensitivity, and glare, but not other factors that contribute to these incidents. The results also indicate that cataract surgery does not completely eliminate the risk of a traffic crash or fall ...
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LA - en SN - 2168-6165 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2019.0396 ID - ref1 ER -