Vision-related quality of life comparison for emmetropes, myopes after refractive surgery, and myopes wearing spectacles or contact lenses

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 752-759

  Chen, Christine Y ^a,b   Keeffe, Jill E ^a,b   Garoufalis, Pam ^a,b   Islam, Fakir M A ^a,b   Dirani, Mohamed ^a,b   Couper, Terry A ^a,c   Taylor, Hugh R ^a,b   Baird, Paul N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b VISION COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c Melbourne Excimer Laser Group   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTACT LENS; COPING BEHAVIOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EMMETROPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; REFRACTION ERROR; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; SPECTACLES; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION; VISION QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX;

EID: 35349014119     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081-597x-20071001-04     Document Type: Article

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