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Vision Impairment and Patient Activation among Medicare Beneficiaries

Lama Assia Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;b The Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;c Department of Ophthalmology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Karim Kozhayad Department of Ophthalmology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, LebanonView further author information
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Bonnielin K. Swenora Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;b The Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;e Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;f The wilmer eye institute, The Disability Health Research Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg University, Baltimore, Maryland, USAORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6044-0951View further author information
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Nicholas S. Reeda Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;e Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;f The wilmer eye institute, The Disability Health Research Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;g Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USAORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0410-6067View further author information
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Pages 159-165 | Received 04 Dec 2021, Accepted 11 May 2022, Published online: 20 May 2022

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