Stanford university network for diagnosis of retinopathy of prematurity (sundrop): Four-years of screening with telemedicine

Current Eye Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 283-291

  Fijalkowski, Natalia ^a   Zheng, Luo Luo ^a   Henderson, Michael T ^a   Wallenstein, Matthew B ^b   Leng, Theodore ^a   Moshfeghi, Darius M ^a  

^a Byers Eye Institute   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Premature infant screening; RetCam II; Retinopathy of prematurity; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INDIRECT OPHTHALMOSCOPE; INFANT; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SCREENING; TELEMEDICINE;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEONATAL SCREENING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84873893950     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02713683.2012.754902     Document Type: Article

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