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Recent community based studies have shown that only a minority of visually impaired people who are eligible to be registered as partially sighted or blind are actually registered as such. To determine how many unregistered but eligible people are attending ophthalmic clinics a prospective study was undertaken of all patients (n=1543) attending ophthalmic outpatient departments, at a single speciality...