Waterloo eye study: Data abstraction and population representation

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 613-620

  MacHan, Carolyn M ^a   Hrynchak, Patricia K ^a   Irving, Elizabeth L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

cross sectional studies; epidemiology; population characteristics; reliability; vision data

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTORS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE GROUPS; CLINICAL DATA; CONTINUOUS DATA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA ABSTRACTION; DATA QUALITY; DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; FAIR REPRESENTATION; GENERAL POPULATION; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; K-VALUES; KAPPA STATISTIC; MEAN AGES; MISSING DATA; OPTOMETRIC PRACTICE; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; QUALITATIVE DATA; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SAMPLE SIZES; STUDY GROUPS; UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO; VISION DATA;

ABSTRACTING; BINOCULAR VISION; DISEASES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RELIABILITY;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTOMETRY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL; SEX RATIO; STANDARD; UNIVERSITY;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; OPTOMETRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHOOLS, HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955553484     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e3182120514     Document Type: Article

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