Distance refractive error among aboriginal people attending eye clinics in remote South Australia

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 621-626

  Durkin, Shane R ^a   Tan, Edwin W H ^a   Casson, Robert J ^a   Selva, Dinesh ^a   Newland, Henry S ^a  

^a ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Low vision; Refractive error

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION ERROR; SPECTACLES; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ANISOMETROPIA; ASTIGMATISM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREVALENCE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 34848825641     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2007.01555.x     Document Type: Article

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