Visual disability variables. II: The difficulty of tasks for a sample of low-vision patients

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 954-967

  Massof, Robert W ^a,b   Hsu, Cynthia T ^a   Baker, Frank H ^a   Barnett, G David ^a   Park, William L ^a   Deremeik, James T ^a   Rainey, Carol ^a   Epstein, Cathy ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lions Vision Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Questionnaires; Rehabilitation; Vision, low

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; INVENTORY CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PATIENT; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TELEPHONE; VISUAL DISORDER;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TELEPHONE; VISION, LOW;

EID: 18844418469     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2004.09.017     Document Type: Article

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