Evaluating the visual experience: Visual acuity and the visual analogue scale

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 547-552

  Pointer, Jonathan S ^a  

^a Optometric Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distance visual acuity; logMAR; Visual analogue scale

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; OPTOMETRY; PRESBYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ADULT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; SELF EVALUATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECTACLES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 1542649743     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1475-1313.2003.00152.x     Document Type: Article

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