Relationship between night myopia and night-time motor vehicle accidents

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 367-370

  Cohen, Yuval ^a,c   Zadok, David ^a   Barkana, Yaniv ^a   Shochat, Zipora ^b   Ashkenazi, Isaac ^b   Avni, Isaac ^a   Morad, Yair ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^c ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Driving; Motor vehicle accidents; Myopia; Night myopia; Refraction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DARK ADAPTATION; DRIVER; EYE REFRACTION; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT REFRACTION; NIGHT BLINDNESS; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; DARK ADAPTATION; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MYOPIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFRACTION, OCULAR;

EID: 34250179430     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: 16000420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2006.00875.x     Document Type: Article

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