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The limitation of our study was it only included
those ophthalmologists who were members of
Ophthalmological Society of Pakistan. In future a
study involving more ophthalmologists and further
aspects related to strabismus need to be studied in
order to improve standard of care provided by health
professionals.
CONCLUSION
The current practices in strabismus need to be
standardized and a consensus should be developed at a
national level.
Ethical Approval
The study was approved by the Institutional review
board/Ethical review board.
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Conflict of Interest
Authors declared no conflict of interest
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Ch Nasir Ahmed; Associate Professor: Research idea
conception, data collection and analysis, article
writing.
Muhammad Shaheer; Assistant Professor: Literature
search and data analysis, editing article draft.
Sarmad Zahoor; Data collection and analysis.
Salman Hamza; Assistant Professor: Data collection
and analysis.
Samran Asim; Post graduate Resident: Literature
search, Final review
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