Australian and New Zealand Registry of Advanced Glaucoma: Methodology and recruitment

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 569-575

  Souzeau, Emmanuelle ^a   Goldberg, Ivan ^c   Healey, Paul R ^c   Mills, Richard A D ^a   Landers, John ^a   Graham, Stuart L ^c   Grigg, John R B ^d   Usher, Bronwyn ^a   Straga, Tania ^a   Crawford, April ^a   Casson, Robert J ^b   Morgan, William H ^e   Ruddle, Jonathan B ^f   Coote, Michael A ^f   White, Andrew ^d   Stewart, James ^g   Hewitt, Alex W ^a,f   Mackey, David A ^e,f   Burdon, Kathryn P ^a   Craig, Jamie E ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d SYDNEY EYE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^g WAIKATO HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Genetics; Glaucoma; Open angle glaucoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED GLAUCOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLINDNESS; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT SELECTION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84865189375     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2011.02742.x     Document Type: Article

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