Barriers to low vision rehabilitation: The Montreal barriers study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 8933-8938

  Overbury, Olga ^a,b,c   Wittich, Walter ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Institut Raymond Dewar Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en réadaptation   (Canada)

^d CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^e MAB Mackay Rehabilitation Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE; REHABILITATION CENTER; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WAITING ROOM; CANADA; FACTUAL DATABASE; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUEBEC; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84856013850     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-8116     Document Type: Article

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