Cost-efficient vision screening for astigmatism in Native American preschool children

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 3756-3763

  Miller, Joseph M ^a,c   Dobson, Velma ^a,c   Harvey, Erin M ^a,b   Sherrill, Duane L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY CARE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DYSLEXIA; ETHNIC GROUP; EVALUATION; EYE REFRACTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; KERATOMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFRACTION ERROR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY;

ASTIGMATISM; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MODELS, ECONOMIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISION SCREENING; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0041360403     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.02-0970     Document Type: Article

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