A comparison of ETDRS charts using Latin letters, Tumbling E, and Landolt C optotypes found the alternatives are comparable to letter acuity at the population level.
|Articles|May 21, 2021
Poll results: Did you purchase new equipment during COVID-19?
Author(s)Brooke Henson, Editor
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Optometry Times® polled our audience with the following question from April 30, 2021 to May 14, 2021:
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30 ODs responded, in total. Of these:
• 20 reported purchasing a new diagnostic device
• 2 reported purchasing a new therapeutic device
• 1 reported purchasing new software
• 7 reported making no purchases
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