Adapting to COVID-19 with outdoor intraocular pressure monitoring

What The Study Did: To adapt to broader public health initiatives around COVID-19, researchers developed a drive-through intraocular pressure (IOP) screening clinic to minimize COVID-19 exposure for patients and clinicians by measuring eye pressure in the unconventional setting of a clinic parking lot.

Authors: Miel Sundararajan, M.D., of the University of California, San Francisco, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2020.6073)

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