Prescribing spectacles: Reasons for failure of spectacle lens acceptance

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 111-115

  Hrynchak, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Patient dissatisfaction; Refractive error; Spectacle adaptation; Spectacle lens prescription; Subjective refraction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LENS; MEDICAL RECORD; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; SPECTACLES;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRESCRIPTIONS, NON-DRUG; REFRACTIVE ERRORS;

EID: 33645123231     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: 14751313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-1313.2005.00351.x     Document Type: Article

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