Daytime presentations to a metropolitan ophthalmic emergency department

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 586-592

  Kumar, Nikhil L ^a   Black, Deborah ^b   McClellan, Kathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eye diseases; Metropolitan emergency department; Ophthalmic emergency

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CATARACT; CHILD; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONSULTATION; CORNEA INJURY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; IRIDOCYCLITIS; KERATITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; DAY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DAY CARE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; OPHTHALMOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33644976985     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2005.01100.x     Document Type: Article

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