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Addressing Individual Ophthalmic Health in Public Health Research Pubmed



Hashemi H1 ; Asgari S2 ; Mehravaran S3 ; Emamian MH4 ; Fotouhi A5
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  1. 1. Professor of Opthalmology at the Noor Ophthalmology Research Center at the Noor Eye Hospital in Tehran, Iran
  2. 2. Senior Research Scientist at the Noor Ophthalmology Research Center at the Noor Eye Hospital
  3. 3. Research Associate Professor in the Department of Biology, School of Computer, Natural Sciences at Morgan State University in Baltimore
  4. 4. Professor of Epidemiology at the Ophthalmic Epidemiology Research Center, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Iran
  5. 5. Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Source: The Journal of clinical ethics Published:2021


Abstract

In pediatric cohort studies, disclosing findings and providing treatment counseling to parents, legal guardians, or other authorized representatives is an ethical imperative. Keratoconus (KC) is a corneal degenerative disease that can progress to severe vision impairment and need for corneal transplantation. This report concerns the disclosure of results to the parents of children who were diagnosed with KC in the Shahroud Schoolchildren Eye Cohort Study and received essential treatment in a timely manner. Copyright 2021 The Journal of Clinical Ethics. All rights reserved.