International contact lens prescribing in 2005

This article presents our fifth annual survey of international contact lens prescribing trends. In the first half of 2005, we analyzed prescribing habits in 15 countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. In each country, we sent 1,000 surveys (or fewer in countries where this exceeded the total number of practitioners) to contact lens clinicians who were randomly selected from appropriate national registers