Changing from Snellen to LogMAR: Debate or delay?

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 6-8

  Hussain, Badrul ^a   Saleh, George M ^a   Sivaprasad, Sobha ^a   Hammond, Christopher J ^a  

^a Princess Royal University Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Vision science; Visual acuity; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EYE REFRACTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STRABISMUS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33644880264     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2006.01135.x     Document Type: Article

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