American Journal of Ophthalmology
Volume 139, Issue 5 , Pages 900-905 , May 2005

Improving the Reporting of Clinical Case Series

  • Douglas A. Jabs, MD, MBA

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Ophthalmology and Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    • Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
    • Corresponding Author InformationInquiries to Douglas Jabs, MD, The Wilmer Eye Institute, 550 North Broadway, Suite #700, Baltimore, MD 21205; Fax: (410) 955-0629

,Accepted 3 December 2004.

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 Supported in part by grant EY 00405 from the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

 The Editors-in-Chief of the American Journal of Ophthalmology, Archives of Ophthalmology, and Ophthalmology have reviewed the manuscript, and with the approval of the author, have included this manuscript in the Editorship series of these three journals.

PII: S0002-9394(04)01490-4

doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2004.12.009

American Journal of Ophthalmology
Volume 139, Issue 5 , Pages 900-905 , May 2005

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