Health Service Use and Mortality of the Elderly Blind

Purpose: To determine whether blindness in older people is associated with increased health service use and mortality. Design: Retrospective matched cohort study from July 1, 1999, through June 30, 2010. Participants: A blind cohort 65 years of age and older from a volunteer blind register and a coh...

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Main Authors: Crewe, J., Spilsbury, K., Morlet, Nigel, Morgan, W., Mukhtar, Syed Aqif, Clark, A., Semmens, J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier Inc. 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/5815