Rapid assessment of avoidable blindness in the occupied palestinian territories

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Chiang, Far ^a   Kuper, Hannah ^b   Lindfield, Robert ^b   Keenan, Tiarnan ^c   Seyam, Na'el ^d   Magauran, Denise ^e   Khalilia, Nasrallah ^a   Batta, Habes ^a   Abdeen, Ziad ^f   Sargent, Nicholas ^a  

^a Occupied Palestinian Territories   (Palestine)

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

^c MANCHESTER ROYAL EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Military Medical Services   (Palestine)

^e EPSOM AND ST HELIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALESTINE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREVALENCE; RAPID ASSESSMENT OF AVOIDABLE BLINDNESS; SELF REPORT; SEX RATIO; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; ARAB; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; REFRACTION ERROR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARABS; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; REFRACTIVE ERRORS;

EID: 77955644594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011854     Document Type: Article

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