Non-cycloplegic refractive screening can identify infants whose visual outcome at 4 years is improved by spectacle correction

Strabismus

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 227-245

  Anker, Shirley ^a   Atkinson, J ^a   Braddick, O ^b   Nardini, M ^a   Ehrlich, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Amblyopia; Hyperopia; Infant vision; Screening; Strabismus; Videorefraction

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINOSCOPY; SCREENING; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SPECTACLES; STRABISMUS; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; AMBLYOPIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EYEGLASSES; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETINOSCOPY; STRABISMUS; VISION SCREENING; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 11144321499     PISSN: 09273972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09273970490517935     Document Type: Article

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