Vision screening in preschool children: Do the data support universal screening?;Sehscreening bei kindern im vorschulalter: Rechtfertigt die bisherige datenlage ein universelles vorgehen?

Deutsches Arzteblatt

Volumn 107, Issue 28-29, 2010, Pages 495-499

  Lagrèze, Wolf A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; AMBLYOPIA; AMETROPIA; ARTICLE; AWARDS AND PRIZES; CALCULATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA; CORNEA; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; GERMANY; HUMAN; LACRIMAL DUCT; MEDLINE; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PUPIL REFLEX; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETINA DYSTROPHY; RETINOBLASTOMA; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRABISMUS; VISION TEST; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 78049370782     PISSN: 00121207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2010.0495     Document Type: Article

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