Ocular telehealth screenings in an urban community

Telemedicine and e-Health

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 95-100

  Shahid, Khadija ^a,b   Kolomeyer, Anton M ^a   Nayak, Natasha V ^a   Salameh, Nura ^a   Pelaez, Gina ^c   Khouri, Albert S ^a   Eck, Thomas T ^a   Szirth, Ben ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AND VISUAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

diabetes; glaucoma; non mydriatic camera; soup kitchen population; telehealth; vision threatening disease

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; AT-RISK POPULATION; BODY MASS INDEX; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; ECONOMIC RECESSION; GLAUCOMA; HEALTH SCREENINGS; HEALTHCARE COVERAGE; HIGH SPEED INTERNET; IMAGE EVALUATION; INTEGRAL PART; INTRA OCULAR PRESSURE; MEAN AGES; MEGA-PIXEL; NON-MYDRIATIC; OUTREACH PROGRAMS; RETINAL CAMERAS; SENSITIVE DETECTION; SOUP KITCHEN POPULATION; STUDY GROUPS; TELEHEALTH; URBAN COMMUNITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CAMERAS; DIAGNOSIS; EYE PROTECTION; HEALTH CARE; KITCHENS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; ECONOMICS; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857802554     PISSN: 15305627     EISSN: 15563669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2011.0067     Document Type: Article

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