Telephotoscreening to detect retinopathy of prematurity: Preliminary study of the optimum time to employ digital fundus camera imaging to detect ROP

Journal of AAPOS

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 64-70

  Yen, Kimberly G ^a   Hess, Ditte ^b   Burke, Barbara ^c   Johnson, Rose Anne ^c   Feuer, William T ^b   Flynn, John T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMERA; HUMAN; IMAGING; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NURSE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNIQUE; TELEMETRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EVALUATION; EYE FUNDUS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NEWBORN; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TELEMEDICINE; TIME; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FUNDUS OCULI; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEMEDICINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036549359     PISSN: 10918531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mpa.2002.121616     Document Type: Article

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