Accuracy of the Tonosafe disposable tonometer head compared to the Goldmann tonometer alone

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 364-367

  Kim, Peter ^a   Lertsumitkul, Somsak ^a,b   Clark, Meaghan ^a   Gardner, Leeanne ^a   Macken, Peter ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Goldmann; Intraocular pressure; Tonometer; Tonosafe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRISM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TONOMETER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 4444376103     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2004.00838.x     Document Type: Article

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