The effects of study design and spectrum bias on the evaluation of diagnostic accuracy of confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy in glaucoma

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 214-222

  Medeiros, Felipe A ^a   Ng, Diana ^a   Zangwill, Linda M ^a   Sample, Pamela A ^a   Bowd, Christopher ^a   Weinreb, Robert N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; ADULT; AGED; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; ROC CURVE; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AREA UNDER CURVE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; LASERS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; ROC CURVE; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33846932611     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-0618     Document Type: Article

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