Driving with a visual impairment

Insight - Journal of the American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 48-52

  Wilkinson, Mark E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAR DRIVING; DECISION MAKING; DRIVER LICENCE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; VISION TEST; VISUAL DISORDER;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVER EXAMINATION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; UNITED STATES; VISION DISORDERS; VISION SCREENING;

EID: 0032104964     PISSN: 1060135X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1060-135X(98)90018-5     Document Type: Article

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