Preferred Label : Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications;
NCIt synonyms : DECA;
NCIt definition : A division of the National Eye Institute that has the mission to plan, develop, and
conduct human population studies concerned with the cause, prevention, and treatment
of eye disease and vision disorders, with emphasis on the major causes of blindness
and visual impairment. They also carry out programs of education in biometric and
epidemiologic principles and methods for the vision research community as well as
providing biometric and epidemiologic assistance to National Eye Institute intramural
and extramural staff and to vision research workers elsewhere.;
Origin ID : C82615;
UMLS CUI : C2826329;
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