Lack of Concordance between Fixation Preference and HOTV Optotype Visual Acuity in Preschool Children. The Baltimore Pediatric Eye Disease Study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1796-1799

  Friedman, David S ^a,b   Katz, Joanne ^a,b   Repka, Michael X ^a   Giordano, Lydia ^a   Ibironke, Josephine ^a   Hawse, Patricia ^a   Tielsch, James M ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FIXATION PREFERENCE TEST; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BALTIMORE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URBAN POPULATION; VISION DISORDERS; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 53149129423     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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