Symptoms and satisfaction of patients in the PROWL study: Pre- and postoperative legal implications

From international law firm Arnold & Porter LLP comes a timely column that provides views on current regulatory and legislative topics that weigh on the minds of today’s physicians and health care executives.In October 2009, the FDA, the National Eye Institute and the Department of Defense launched the LASIK Quality of Life Collaboration Project to help better understand the potential risk of severe problems that can result from LASIK surgery. On Nov. 23, the long-awaited Patient-Reported Outcomes with LASIK (PROWL) studies were published in JAMA Ophthalmology. The PROWL-1 study included (Read more...)

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