What does this source bring?
Naidoo et al.'s model estimated the potential loss of productivity due to unadjusted myopia at 244 billion in 2015.
95% CI: 49–697 USD billion. This is a model of lost productivity, not health care expenses or the cost of all refractive errors.
CLAIM-EKONOMIAScope of testing and verification
- The role of the record
- Source of the claim
- Population
- Global productivity losses in 2015
- N
- Not applicable / not determined within the verified range
- Geography
- Globally
- Observation (months)
- Not applicable / not determined within the verified range
- Comparator
- Not applicable / no common comparator
- Result
- Naidoo et al.'s model estimated the potential loss of productivity due to unadjusted myopia at 244 billion in 2015.
- Safety
- This record does not allow estimation of the frequency of rare adverse events.
- Device/structure
- Not applicable / not determined within the verified range
- Publisher of the publication
- Elsevier BV
- Financing
- Not determined within the proven range; see the declaration in full text.
- Conflicts of interest
- Not determined within the proven range. The absence of confirmation does not mean the absence of conflict.
- DOI
- 10.1016 /j.ophtha. 2018.10.029
- PMID
- 30342076
- What was checked
- Bibliographic metadata and abstract in Europe PMC / PubMed
- Date of verification
- 2026-09-09
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