The free, web-based tool allows optometrists to input the patient’s age and level of refractive error, and then select a treatment option. The calculator will then donstrate the effect of the treatment on myopia progression and compare it with how the condition is likely to progress without treatment.{{quote-A:R-W:450-I:2-Q:We’re providing practitioners with the knowledge and tools to offer their patients the best evidence-based treatment options.-WHO:Padmaja Sankaridurg}}It is able to do this by merging individual patient information with different optical and pharmacological treatment options.Head of BHVI’s myopia program, Professor Padmaja Sankaridurg, said the calculator was just one of a series of projects the institute had create to address what he described as a major public health probl.“We’re not only developing novel optical treatments for myopia managent and conducting epidiological research, but, through professional development courses and aids like the calculator, we’re also providing practitioners with the knowledge and tools to offer their patients the best evidence-based treatment options,” she said.“Our online ‘Managing Myopia’ course, which was recently held for Australian practitioners, is now being conducted in the US and India and will soon be translated for China.”More information:– Access the calculator here.
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