Association between visual impairment and patient-reported visual disability at different stages of cataract surgery

Ophthalmic Epidemiology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 299-307

  Acosta Rojas, E Ruthy ^b   Comas, Mercè ^b   Sala, Maria ^b   Castells, Xavier ^a  

^a Del Mar University   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Binocular vision; Cataract surgery; Contrast sensitivity; Health status; Quality of life; Stereopsis; Visual acuity; Visual impairment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPHAKIA; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSEUDOPHAKIA; VISION DISORDERS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33750313593     PISSN: 09286586     EISSN: 17445086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09286580600694464     Document Type: Article

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