PREDICTING CHANGES IN CATARACT SURGERY HEALTH OUTCOMES USING A CATARACT SURGERY APPROPRIATENESS AND PRIORITIZATION INSTRUMENT.

Predicting changes in cataract surgery health outcomes using a cataract surgery appropriateness and prioritization instrument.

ObjectiveDetermine whether items in a cataract surgery appropriateness and prioritization questionnaire can predict change in best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and health related quality of life (HRQOL) following cataract surgery.Methods313 patients with a cataract in Ontario, Canada were recruited to participate.BCVA was measured using the Snell

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Principialism and legalism: a normative approach

This paper questions the descriptive nature of principialist theories such as postpositivism or neoconstitutionalism and also of legalistic theories and it advocates an openly normative reading of their theses.For the emergence of principles or the constitutionalization of legal systems are not theoretically independent objective facts, but the res

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Psychosocial and Economic Risks of Institutional Quarantine in a Low-Resource Setting: Experiences of Affected Persons during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Uganda

Institutional quarantine was one of the key public health measures used to control the spread of the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).Institutional Armored Opto Sensor Cable quarantine has been associated with several psychosocial and economic risks.However, little is known about the psychosocial and economic risks it poses to affected persons

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