Sensitivity and specificity of tests to detect eye disease in an older population

Ophthalmology

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 968-975

  Ivers, Rebecca Q ^a   Macaskill, Petra ^a   Cumming, Robert G ^a   Mitchell, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EYE DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EYE DISEASES; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0035028680     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(00)00649-7     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Prevalence of age-related maculopathy in Australia. The Blue Mountains Eye Study [review]
2. Prevalence of cataract in Australia: The Blue Mountains Eye Study
3. Prevalence of open-angle glaucoma in Australia. The Blue Mountains Eye Study
4. Prevalence of age-related maculopathy. The Beaver Dam Eye Study
5. Prevalence of age-related lens opacities in a population. The Beaver Dam Eye Study
6. Prevalence of glaucoma. The Beaver Dam Eye Study
7. Visual impairment in nursing home residents: The Blue Mountains Eye Study
8. Visual impairment and falls in older adults: The Blue Mountains Eye Study
9. Screening for ophthalmic disease in older subjects using visual acuity and contrast sensitivity
10. Evaluation of screening schemes for eye disease in a primary care setting
11. Sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values of screening tests for eye conditions in a clinic-based population
12. Test-retest reliability of the Arden Grating Test: Inter-tester variability
13. Visual acuity and the causes of visual loss in Australia. The Blue Mountains Eye Study
14. Lack of association between localized cataract and visual field loss: The Blue Mountains Eye Study
15. Assessment of cataracts from photographs in the Beaver Dam Eye Study
16. The Wisconsin age-related maculopathy grading system
17. An alternative method of grading diabetic retinopathy
18. Comparing the area under two or more correlated receiver operating characteristic curves: A nonparametric approach
19. A comprehensive assessment of visual impairment in a population of older Americans. The SEE Study. Salisbury Eye Evaluation Project
20. Visual function tests, eye disease and symptoms of visual disability: A population based assessment
21. Aging and neural spatial contrast sensitivity: Photopic vision
22. Contrast sensitivity decline with ageing: A neural or optical phenomenon?
23. Visual acuity and contrast sensitivity in the elderly
24. The effect of early cataracts on glare and contrast sensitivity. A pilot study
25. Influence of type and severity of pure forms of age-related cataract on visual acuity and contrast sensitivity. Italian American Cataract Study Group
26. Contrast sensitivity and glare sensitivity changes with three types of cataract morphology: Are these techniques necessary in a clinical evaluation of cataract?
27. Isolating the effects of primary open-angle glaucoma on the contrast sensitivity function
28. Contrast sensitivity and visual disability in chronic simple glaucoma
29. Contrast sensitivity changes in background diabetic retinopathy
30. Risk factors associated with contrast sensitivity loss in diabetic patients
31. Cataract: The relation between myopia and cataract morphology