The Eye Care Workforce Study reported in 1995 that under modeling assumptions that use a work-time ratio of 1 between optometrists and ophthalmologists and between specialist and generalist ophthalmologists, a significant excess of eye care providers exists.
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Paul P. Lee (2007) studied this question.
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