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Many nursing home residents may not get regular eye examinations
07-09-2007 · EurekAlert!In a study of Alabama nursing home residents, more than half were visually impaired yet two-thirds had no record of or reference to an eye examination in their medical charts, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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