Reliability testing of the Dutch version of the Radner Reading Charts

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 353-358

  Maaijwee, Kristel ^a   Mulder, Paul ^b   Radner, Wolfgang ^c   Van Meurs, Jan C ^a,d  

^a ROTTERDAM EYE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dutch version; Radner Reading Charts; Reliability; Sentence optotypes

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; INSTRUMENT SCALES; MEASUREMENT THEORY; RANDOM ERRORS; RELIABILITY THEORY;

INTER CHART RELIABILITY; LOGMAR; LOGRAD; RADNER READING CHARTS; SENTENCE OPTOTYPES;

OPTOMETERS;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DRUSEN; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADNER READING CHART; READING; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULOPATHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VARIANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; CORNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OPTIC DISK DRUSEN; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; SYNDROME; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 43149084805     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e31816bf58b     Document Type: Article

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