Biomaterial Database

Effective cataract surgery--an undervalued procedure. 1998

S A Obstbaum

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007907	Lens Nucleus, Crystalline	The core of the crystalline lens, surrounded by the cortex.	Crystalline Lens Nucleus,Nucleus, Crystalline Lens
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D015895	Relative Value Scales	Coded listings of physician or other professional services using units that indicate the relative value of the various services they perform. They take into account time, skill, and overhead cost required for each service, but generally do not consider the relative cost-effectiveness. Appropriate conversion factors can be used to translate the abstract units of the relative value scales into dollar fees for each service based on work expended, practice costs, and training costs.	Relative-Value Schedules,Resource-Based Relative Value Scale,Resource Based Relative Value Scale,Relative Value Scale,Relative Value Schedules,Relative-Value Schedule,Scale, Relative Value,Scales, Relative Value,Schedule, Relative-Value,Schedules, Relative-Value
D018166	Health Care Reform	Innovation and improvement of the health care system by reappraisal, amendment of services, and removal of faults and abuses in providing and distributing health services to patients. It includes a re-alignment of health services and health insurance to maximum demographic elements (the unemployed, indigent, uninsured, elderly, inner cities, rural areas) with reference to coverage, hospitalization, pricing and cost containment, insurers' and employers' costs, pre-existing medical conditions, prescribed drugs, equipment, and services.	Healthcare Reform,Health Care Reforms,Healthcare Reforms,Reform, Health Care,Reform, Healthcare,Reforms, Health Care,Reforms, Healthcare
D018918	Phacoemulsification	A procedure for removal of the crystalline lens in cataract surgery in which an anterior capsulectomy is performed by means of a needle inserted through a small incision at the temporal limbus, allowing the lens contents to fall through the dilated pupil into the anterior chamber where they are broken up by the use of ultrasound and aspirated out of the eye through the incision. (Cline, et al., Dictionary of Visual Science, 4th ed & In Focus 1993;1(1):1)	Phacoemulsifications