Identifying the content area for the 51-item national eye institute visual function questionnaire: Results from focus groups with visually impaired persons

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 227-235

  Mangione, Carol M ^a,b   Berry, Sandra ^a   Spritzer, Karen ^a   Janz, Nancy K ^c   Klein, Ronald ^d   Owsley, Cynthia ^e   Lee, Paul P ^a,f  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; VISION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; CATARACT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS RETINITIS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); OPHTHALMOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 0031940446     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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