International contact lens prescribing in 2007

Our annual review of international prescribing trends reports on close to 20,000 prospectively conducted fits in 27 countries. We've reported the results of our international survey of contact lens prescribing each year in this journal since 2002, and our analysis for 2007 represents our most wide-ranging study to date. In this article, we report on the outcomes of 19,971 contact lens fits performed in 27 countries. As in all previous years, the study was prospective in that we asked practitioners to provide information about their first 10 patients prescribed with contact lenses after they received paper or electronic survey forms. One thousand practitioners were approached in most countries, with a smaller number of questionnaires sent in markets where the total number of contact lens practitioners was fewer than this. The precise composition of the practitioner cohort (the proportion of ophthalmologists, optometrists and opticians) necessarily varied by country, but we chose a randomized selection of those practitioners licensed to fit contact lenses in each case

International contact lens prescribing in 2008

Our report on a prospective analysis of more than 22,000 contact lens fits in 27 countries during 2008

International contact lens prescribing in 2009

This is the eighth consecutive year that we have presented data from a survey of international contact lens prescribing in Contact Lens Spectrum. In this article we report on an assessment of 25,801 fits across 28 contact lens markets located in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. As in previous years, we opted for a prospective approach to this work. Up to 1,000 survey forms were randomly disseminated in each market to contact lens practitioners (ophthalmologists, optometrists, and/or opticians depending on the market), and information about the first 10 patients prescribed with lenses after receipt of paper or electronic survey forms was anonymously recorded.<br /

RGP lenses 2010 : the last decade and the next decade

The results of the annual survey on international contact lens fits have become available again, which presents a great opportunity to distill the RGP lens data to see what the status of RGP lenses is today as well as to revisit the last decade of RGP lens fitting and to look ahead to the next decade

International contact lens prescribing in 2010

For the past nine years, we have described the current state of contact lens fitting worldwide in Contact Lens Spectrum. This year, we report on 24,642 lens fits in 27 markets. As in all previous years, coordinators in each market distributed up to 1,000 paper or electronic survey forms to contact lens practitioners who, in turn, collected information about their next 10 fits. Data were processed and checked in the survey administrative offices in Manchester, United Kingdom and in Waterloo, Canada