Innovations: Using telemedicine to screen for retinopathy of prematurity

CMAJ

Volumn 186, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 1012-1014

  Aziz, Ayman A Abdul ^a,b   Isaac, Maram ^a   Tehrani, Nasrin Najm ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FUNDUS CAMERA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PREMATURITY; RETINOPATHY; SCREENING TEST; TELECONFERENCE; TELEMEDICINE; EYE FUNDUS; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETINA; RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY;

FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; RETINA; RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84907164402     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.131357     Document Type: Article

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