Publications by authors named "DB Glasser"
Objective: To characterize the development and performance of a cataract surgery episode-based cost measure for the Medicare Quality Payment Program.
Design: Claims-based analysis.
Participants: Medicare clinicians with cataract surgery claims between June 1, 2016, and May 31, 2017.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to report trends in the prevalence of early graft failure after endothelial keratoplasty in the United States.
Methods: Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK) and Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) graft volumes were collected from records maintained by 6 major eye banks in the United States from January 1, 2013, to December 31, 2018. The prevalence and presumed cause of early graft failures (defined as a graft with persistent edema or regrafted within 8 weeks after keratoplasty) each year were sourced from surgeon-reported adverse events.
Respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19, present a serious threat to endangered wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) populations. In some parts of sub-Saharan Africa, chimpanzee tracking is a popular tourism activity, offering visitors a chance to view apes in their natural habitats. Chimpanzee tourism is an important source of revenue and thus benefits conservation; however, chimpanzee tracking may also increase the risk of disease transmission from people to chimpanzees directly (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAccording to both professional journalists and news users, news should be While a great deal of research that treats relevance as co-constructed starts from the text of news stories, this paper asks how explicitly construct the (ir)relevance of particular news reports, taking a language-centered lens to open-ended survey responses. This paper makes a methodological argument in favor of a language-centered approach to open-ended survey data. Given the ubiquity of online surveys in many social science disciplines, the present paper provides an example of how this approach can deepen our understanding of survey responses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To model Medicare Part B and patient savings associated with increased bevacizumab payment and use for intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) therapy.
Design: Cost analysis.
Participants: Intelligent Research in Sight (IRIS®) Registry data.
Article Synopsis
- Evidence has shown that donor ocular tissue can transmit several diseases, including certain viruses and cancers, while no evidence has been found for HIV, hepatitis C, and others, which remain contraindications for eye transplants.
- Infections can occur from multiple sources, such as infected donors or during tissue processing, leading to complications like primary graft failure from Herpes simplex virus.
- To enhance safety in ocular tissue transplantation, standardizing definitions of adverse events, implementing unique donor identification systems, and improving surveillance practices are essential.
Purpose: To examine the prevalence of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and the bother they impose in a population-based sample of adults in Brazil.
Methods: A cross-sectional population-based survey was conducted between September 2006 and January 2007 in the city of Salvador, Brazil. Cluster samples of representative households were randomly selected for interviews.
Purpose: To investigate the incidence of fungal infections after corneal transplantation to determine whether storage media supplementation with an antifungal should be considered.
Methods: Adverse reactions reported to the Eye Bank Association of America through the online adverse reaction reporting system between January 1, 2007, and December 31, 2010, were reviewed to identify cases of recipient fungal infection. Data were collected regarding the donor, the donor cornea, recovery and processing, and mate culture and clinical course of the recipients.
Prevention of post cataract-surgery cystoid macular edema with nepafenac.
J Cataract Refract Surg
January 2012
Purpose: To report 6 cases of apparently inseparable corneal lamellae during intraoperative preparation of tissue for Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK).
Method: Collection of clinical case reports from an e-mail survey of The Cornea Society and endothelial keratoplasty discussion group participants and Eye Bank Association of America member eye banks.
Results: Five cases involved eye bank precut tissue.
Objectives: To investigate the tolerability of tolterodine extended release (ER) in older subjects with overactive bladder (OAB).
Methods: This was a retrospective analysis of pooled data from five large, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials. Subjects with OAB symptoms, including urinary frequency and urgency (and nocturia in two studies) with or without urgency urinary incontinence, received qd treatment with tolterodine ER (4 mg) or placebo for 8-12 weeks.
To study sexual activity, the prevalence of sexual dysfunction and related help-seeking behaviors among mature adults in the United States of America, a telephone survey was conducted in 2001-2002. A total of 1491 individuals (742 men/749 women) aged 40-80 years completed the survey. Overall, 79.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The Global Study of Sexual Attitudes and Behaviours was a survey of 27 500 men and women in 29 countries. Here we report the sexual activity, the prevalence of sexual difficulties and related help-seeking behaviour among participants in Australia.
Methods: A telephone survey was conducted in Australia in 2001-2002, with interviews based on a standardised questionnaire.
Purpose: The relationship between lower urinary tract symptoms and depressive symptoms was assessed using data from the Male Attitudes Regarding Sexual Health study.
Materials And Methods: Lower urinary tract symptoms, depressive symptoms and erectile dysfunction were assessed using International Prostate Symptom Score, Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale and a validated question from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study. Sociodemographic, clinical and other data were also collected.
Aims: Relationships were evaluated between treatment-related improvements in overactive bladder (OAB) symptoms as recorded in bladder diaries and patient-reported symptom bother, bladder-related problems and health-related quality of life (HRQL).
Methods: A post hoc analysis was performed on data from patients with OAB (n = 863) enrolled in a 12-week open-label trial of tolterodine extended release (ER) in a primary care setting. At baseline and week 12, patients recorded every micturition, urgency episode and urgency urinary incontinence episode in 3-day bladder diaries.
Purpose: Several studies have shown that men with lower urinary tract symptoms are more likely to experience erectile dysfunction. All except 1 of these studies were cross-sectional, limiting inferences about whether lower urinary tract symptoms precipitate erectile dysfunction.
Materials And Methods: The association between lower urinary tract symptoms and incident erectile dysfunction was examined prospectively in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study.
Objectives: To study sexual activity, the prevalence of sexual dysfunction, and related help-seeking behaviour patterns among middle-aged and older people in the UK and Europe.
Subjects And Methods: A telephone survey was conducted using a structured questionnaire covering demographics, health, relationships, and sexual behaviour, attitudes and beliefs. In the UK, 1500 individuals completed the survey.
Aim: To assess the incidence of serious cardiovascular disease (CVD) events [i.e. myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke] and all-cause mortality in men with erectile dysfunction (ED) who received prescriptions for sildenafil.
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