Visual acuity scored by the letter-by-letter or probit methods has lower retest variability than the line assignment method

Eye

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 411-417

  Vanden Bosch, Michael E ^a   Wall, Michael ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Letter chart; Variability; Vision; Visual acuity; Visual testing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; SCORING SYSTEM; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 0030797799     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.1997.87     Document Type: Article

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