Functional and perceived benefits of wearing coloured filters by patients with age-related macular degeneration

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 450-454

  Bailie, Maura ^a   Wolffsohn, James Stuart ^b   Stevenson, Michael ^c   Jackson, A Jonathan ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL VISION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coloured filters; Low vision; Macular degeneration; Tints; Visual rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COLOR; COLOR VISION; COLOURED FILTERS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; FILTRATION; GLARE; HUMAN; LIGHT; LOW VISION; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; SPECTACLES; TINTS; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL REHABILITATION;

COLOURED FILTERS; LOW VISION; MACULAR DEGENERATION; TINTS; VISUAL REHABILITATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLOR; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; FILTRATION; GLARE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84883465425     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cxo.12031     Document Type: Article

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