Infant hyperopia: Detection, distribution, changes and correlates - Outcomes from the Cambridge infant screening programs

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 84-96

  Atkinson, Janette ^a   Braddick, Oliver ^b   Nardini, Marko ^b   Anker, Shirley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive correlates of hyperopia; Emmetropization; Hyperopia; Infant vision; Photorefraction; Strabismus; Vision screening

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REFRACTION;

EMMETROPIZATION; HYPEROPIA; INFANT VISION; PHOTOREFRACTION; SPECTACLE CORRECTION; STRABISMUS; VISION SCREENING; VISUOMOTOR COMPETENCES;

SCREENING;

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EYE EXAMINATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LIGHT REFRACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHONETICS; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SPECTACLES; STRABISMUS; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENGLAND; EYEGLASSES; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; INFANT; MASS SCREENING; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; REFRACTION, OCULAR;

EID: 33847015232     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e318031b69a     Document Type: Article

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