Telemedicine model to prevent blindness from familial glaucoma

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 760-765

  Staffieri, Sandra E ^a   Ruddle, Jonathan B ^a   Kearns, Lisa S ^a   Barbour, Julie M ^b   Edwards, Thomas L ^c   Paul, Padma ^a   Mackey, David A ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Launceston Eye Institute   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Glaucoma; Screening; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLINDNESS; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; SCREENING; TELEMEDICINE;

AGED; BLINDNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TASMANIA; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 80255122602     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2011.02556.x     Document Type: Article

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