Measuring outcomes of vision rehabilitation with the veterans affairs low vision visual functioning questionnaire

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3253-3261

  Stelmack, Joan A ^a,e,f,i   Szlyk, Janet P ^b,f   Stelmack, Thomas R ^b,e,f   Demers Turco, Paulette ^c   Williams, R Tracy ^d,e,g   Moran, D'Anna ^a   Massof, Robert W ^h  

^a HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b JESSE BROWN VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Low Vision Optometry Practice   (United States)

^d Lois and Edwin Deicke Center for Vision Rehabilitation   (United States)

^e ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^g LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ Edward Hines Jr Veterans Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW VISION VISUAL FUNCTIONING QUESTIONNAIRE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; READING; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; GOVERNMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REHABILITATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUESTIONNAIRES; REHABILITATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VISION SCREENING; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33748113998     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-1319     Document Type: Article

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