Discrepancies in the concordance of self-reported vision status and visual acuity in the salisbury eye evaluation study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 106-111

  El Gasim, Mahmood ^a   Munoz, Beatriz ^b   West, Sheila K ^b   Scott, Adrienne W ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC SELF EVALUATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARYLAND; SOCIAL CLASS; VISION DISORDERS; VISION TESTS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84855301831     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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