New standardised texts for assessing reading performance in four European languages

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 480-484

  Hahn, G A ^a   Penka, D ^f   Gehrlich, C ^a   Messias, A ^a,g   Weismann, M ^a   Hyvarinen L ^b   Leinonen, M ^b   Feely, M ^c   Rubin, G ^c   Dauxerre, C ^d   Vital Durand, F ^d   Featherston, S ^e   Dietz, K ^e   Trauzettel Klosinski, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f Ocuserv   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FEMALE; FRANCE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; STANDARDIZATION; VELOCITY; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ENGLAND; FINLAND; FRANCE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; VISION TESTS; VISION, LOW;

EID: 33645294385     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2005.087379     Document Type: Article

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