Psychometric properties and validation of the standard patient evaluation of eye dryness questionnaire

Cornea

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1204-1210

  Ngo, William ^a   Situ, Ping ^b   Keir, Nancy ^a   Korb, Donald ^c   Blackie, Caroline ^c   Simpson, Trefford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TearScience Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

dry eye; psychometric; questionnaire; SPEED; validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRY EYE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEIBOMIAN GLAND; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OCULAR SURFACE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RASCH ANALYSIS; STANDARD PATIENT EVALUATION OF EYE DRYNESS; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DRY EYE SYNDROMES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEIBOMIAN GLANDS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; TEARS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883309289     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e318294b0c0     Document Type: Article

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