Cost, potential environmental effects of unused pharmaceuticals in cataract surgery

What The Study Did: The financial and environmental costs of unused portions of drugs from cataract surgery at four surgical sites in the U.S was investigated in this study.

Authors: Cassandra L. Thiel, Ph.D., of the New York University School of Medicine in New York, is the corresponding author

(doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2019.2901)

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