Screening for prevention of optic nerve damage due to chronic open angle glaucoma

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Hatt, S ^b   Wormald, Richard ^a   Burr, J ^b  

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

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCHRANE LIBRARY; COST OF ILLNESS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA SYNTHESIS; DISEASE COURSE; EMBASE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MASS SCREENING; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC NERVE LESION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 37649028741     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006129.pub2     Document Type: Review

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