Welcome to the Canadian Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting unofficial blog of topics of interest to glaucoma specialists like myself. This conference is being held in Quebec City from June 26-29, 2010 and therefore you will see many changes to this section of the blog as I update my entries each day. I would like to encourage readers to add their comments to these postings as they appear.
June 26-29, 2010
Highlights of presentations of particular interest to glaucoma specialists
27May2011 Note: I am continuing to edit these articles and ‘publishing’ new entries as I complete each one. WIth the 74th Annual COS Meeting June 9-12, 2011 from Vancouver, I will be sure to finish editing last year’s articles and get ready for the new conference blog.
In this talk, Dr Nicolela sets out to discuss how to incorporate risk factors into our clinical decisions about patients with glaucoma. He starts by defining risk factors, prognostic factors and modifiable risk factors. We tend to use risk and prognostic factors interchangeably; is there really a difference when it comes to glaucoma as a continuum?
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