Publications by authors named "L A Kilty"
The consultative document, 'Our Healthier Nation' (Department of Health, 1998a), outlined areas for health improvement, and offers health professionals an opportunity to use the Government's programme to raise breast-feeding rates. This article reports the results of an audit to establish local breast-feeding prevalence rates in south Leicestershire, and when and why women stop breast-feeding. A simple questionnaire was used by health visitors to collect data on all babies born over a 3-month period (October 1997 - December 1997).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To explore nurse prescribing from the patient's viewpoint.
Method: This study was undertaken in one primary care group in Leicestershire. All prescribing health visitors (n = 17), district nurses (n = 9) and practice nurses (n = 1) were asked to recruit five patients for whom they had prescribed.
Glaucoma after cataract extraction and posterior chamber lens implantation in children.
J Cataract Refract Surg
September 1997
Purpose: To evaluate the incidence of postoperative glaucoma in children who have cataract extraction and posterior chamber intraocular lens (IOL) implantation.
Setting: Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Methods: The incidence of glaucoma of all etiologies was evaluated in 45 eyes of 37 selected consecutive patients aged 1 to 18 years who had cataract extraction and posterior chamber IOL implantation from 1991 to 1994.
Purpose: To evaluate visual outcome and complications after extracapsular cataract extraction with posterior chamber intraocular lens implantation in children.
Methods: Extracapsular cataract extraction with posterior chamber intraocular lens implantation was performed on 20 eyes of 19 patients with traumatic cataract, ten eyes with unilateral congenital or developmental cataract, and 15 eyes (eight patients) with bilateral developmental cataract. Nd:YAG posterior capsulotomy was performed in the early postoperative period as indicated.