OphthoEvidence report: Baseline structural optical coherence tomography biomarkers predictive of visual acuity following epiretinal membrane surgery–A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

• Xiajing Chu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6283-8074

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• João Pedro Lima,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Thomas Kevill Vitreoretinal Imaging Lab, St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5486-7211

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• Dena Zeraatkar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Thomas Kevill Vitreoretinal Imaging Lab, St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Jinhui Ma,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Thomas Kevill Vitreoretinal Imaging Lab, St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Femin Prasad,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5445-2489

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• Sangeetha Srinivasan,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, St. Joseph’s Health Care, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Sobha Sivaprasad,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8952-0659

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• Teresa Sandinha,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation St Paul’s Eye Unit, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Peter Kaiser,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

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• David H. Steel,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Bioscience Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Sunderland Eye Infirmary, Sunderland, United Kingdom

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• Tien Yin Wong,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore, Beijing Visual Science and Translational Eye Research Institute, School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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• Charles C. Wykoff,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Retina Consultants of Texas, Houston, Texas, Blanton Eye Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Varun Chaudhary

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vchaudh@mcmaster.ca

  Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Thomas Kevill Vitreoretinal Imaging Lab, St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9988-4146

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