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Delaying the development and lowering the progression of myopia in children is the focus of current ophthalmology researches. We aimed to evaluate the role of orthokeratology in controlling myopia of ...
Two investigators searched the The Cochrane Library, Embase, Pubmed, China national knowledge infrastructure, China biomedical literature database, WanFang and Weipu databases for randomized controlle...
A total of 14 RCTs involving 2058 children were included in this meta-analysis. Synthesized outcomes indicated that orthokeratology improved the uncorrected visual acuity(MD = 0.40, 95%CI: 0.05 ~ 0.74...
Orthokeratology delays the progression of myopia in children, the long-term effects of orthokeratology need further investigations in future studies....
Prior studies suggest that clinical trials are often hampered by problems in design, conduct, and reporting that limit their uptake in clinical practice. We have described 'informativeness' as the abi...