A CLEAR spotlight

Over the past 135 years, there have been tremendous advancements in contact lenses, with more than 19,000 peer reviewed contact lens-related publications1-11 and, now, an estimated 140 million successful contact lens wearers worldwide.12

Despite this, a global consensus as to how the contact lenses literature can help shape practice, taking an evidence-based approach and identifying future research needs has not materialised – until now.

Inspired by the positive response to the global consensus reports previously produced by the Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society and Myopia institute white papers, Professors James Wolffsohn and Philip Morgan have been instrumental in the conception of BCLA CLEAR (figure 1).