Vision screening of older drivers for preventing road traffic injuries and fatalities

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Subzwari, Sayed ^a   Desapriya, E ^b  

^a Centre for Community Child Health Research   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; COST; DRIVER; HUMAN; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 37649028560     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006252     Document Type: Review

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