Used glasses versus ready-made spectacles for the treatment of refractive error

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 235-240

  Shane, Thomas S ^a   Shi, Wei ^a   Schiffman, Joyce C ^a   Lee, Richard K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CASE STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFRACTION ERROR; SCREENING TEST; SPECTACLES; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EQUIPMENT REUSE; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862604949     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/15428877-20120223-02     Document Type: Article

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