Telemedicine-friendly, portable tonometers: An evaluation for intraocular pressure screening

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 666-670

  Kumar, Sajeesh ^a   Middlemiss, Catherine ^b   Bulsara, Max ^a   Guibilato, Antonio ^a   Morgan, William ^a   Tay Kearney, Mei Ling ^a   Constable, Ian J ^a   Yogesan, Kanagasingam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital; Glaucoma; Screening; Tonometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL IMAGING; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; READING; REFRACTION ERROR; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELEMEDICINE; TONOMETER; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CORNEA; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 33748565924     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2006.01304.x     Document Type: Article

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