Interventions for visual field defects in people with stroke

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2019, Issue 5, 2019, Pages

  Pollock, Alex ^a   Hazelton, Christine ^a   Rowe, Fiona J ^b   Jonuscheit, Sven ^a   Kernohan, Ashleigh ^c   Angilley, Jayne ^d   Henderson, Clair A ^e   Langhorne, Peter ^f   Campbell, Pauline ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Newcastle University ^*  (United Kingdom)

^e SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANXIETY; BARTHEL INDEX; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; FALLING; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LITERACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL FUNCTION QUESTIONNAIRE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL RESTITUTION THERAPY; COMPLICATION; VISUAL DISORDER;

HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STROKE; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 85066858599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD008388.pub3     Document Type: Review

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