Predictors and a remedy for noncompliance with amblyopia therapy in children measured with the occlusion dose monitor

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 4393-4400

  Loudon, Sjoukje E ^a   Fronius, Maria ^b   Looman, Caspar W N ^a   Awan, Musarat ^c   Simonsz, Brigitte ^a   Van Der Maas, Paul J ^a   Simonsz, Huibert J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EDUCATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONITOR; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VISUAL ACUITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; ORTHOPTICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SENSORY DEPRIVATION;

AMBLYOPIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; ORTHOPTICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33750577493     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-1428     Document Type: Article

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