Smartphones, tele-ophthalmology, and VISION 2020

International Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 1909-1918

  Mohammadpour, Mehrdad ^a,b   Heidari, Zahra ^b,c   Mirghorbani, Masoud ^a   Hashemi, Hassan ^d  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b NOOR EYE HOSPITAL   (Iran)

^c MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d NOOR EYE HOSPITAL   (Iran)

Author keywords

Patient satisfaction; Policy making; Smartphone; Tele glaucoma; Tele ophthalmology; Tele retinopathy of prematurity; Teleretina

Indexed keywords

EID: 85037578455     PISSN: 22223959     EISSN: 22274898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18240/ijo.2017.12.19     Document Type: Review

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