Rapid assessment of avoidable blindness in western Rwanda: Blindness in a postconflict setting

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1187-1194

  Mathenge, Wanjiku ^a,b   Nkurikiye, John ^c   Limburg, Hans ^b   Kuper, Hannah ^b  

^a Rift Valley Provincial Hospital   (Kenya)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c KING FAISAL HOSPITAL   (Rwanda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHAKIA; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; REFRACTION ERROR; RWANDA; SAMPLE SIZE; SCAR; TRACHOMA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CORNEAL DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; RWANDA; TRACHOMA; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 34547567771     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040217     Document Type: Article

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