Impact of COVID-19 on Eye Care in Spain during the First Phase of the Pandemic.

Carmen Antía Rodríguez-FernándezMaría Varela-AgraLucía Pérez-RoldánAna Álvarez-RegueraCristina Martínez-RegleroAna Campo-Gesto

Published in: Journal of clinical medicine (2021)

The first wave of the pandemic produced significant changes in ophthalmology services, and these changes were more pronounced in the most affected regions. It caused a negative psychological impact on a high rate of respondents and an interruption of the training of ophthalmology residents. Predictably, the negative consequences of this delay in ophthalmological care on patients will be uneven between regions.

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