Visually Impaired Persons
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The cost of care for people with impaired vision in Australia.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To prospectively collect data on the providers, types, and costs of care for people with impaired vision in Australia. METHODS: Adults with impaired vision, visual acuity worse than 20/40, were recruited from clinics, vision ... Read more...

Prevalence and causes of visual impairment in Chinese adults in urban southern China.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence and causes of visual impairment and blindness in adults living in an urban area of southern China. METHODS: Random cluster sampling was used to identify the adults 50 years and older living in the Liwan district ... Read more...

Direct and indirect effects of visual impairment on mortality risk in older persons.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To investigate pathways from visual impairment to increased all-cause mortality in older persons. METHODS: The Blue Mountains Eye Study examined 3654 persons 49 years and older (82.4% response) during 1992-1994 and after 5 and 10 years. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Visually Impaired Persons'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The role of Braille in the literacy of blind and visually impaired children. 30 Oct 2009
• The cost of care for people with impaired vision in Australia. 29 Sep 2009
• Prevalence and causes of visual impairment in Chinese adults in urban southern China. 29 Sep 2009
• Direct and indirect effects of visual impairment on mortality risk in older persons. 29 Sep 2009
• Issues involving the management of the visually impaired patient. 29 Sep 2009
• Eye injuries in rural Victoria, Australia. 30 Aug 2009
• Trachoma, cataracts and uncorrected refractive error are still important contributors to visual morbidity in two remote indigenous communities of the Northern Territory, Australia. 30 Jul 2009
• How the blind cope with problems of medicine utilization: a study in Bangkok, Thailand. 30 Jul 2009
• Changes in visual impairment prevalence by period of diagnosis of diabetes: the Wisconsin Epidemiologic Study of Diabetic Retinopathy. 16 Jul 2009
• Prevalence and causes of visual impairment in African-American and Hispanic preschool children: the multi-ethnic pediatric eye disease study. 7 Jul 2009
• Vision impairment: treating the special needs patient with a sensory disability. 29 Jun 2009
• Senior challenge. What dentists can do to overcome obstacles in treating elderly patients. 29 Jun 2009
• Visual rehabilitation by scleral fixation of posterior chamber intraocular lenses in Omani children with aphakia. 29 Jun 2009
• Psychosocial adaptation status and health-related quality of life among older Chinese adults with visual disorders. 26 Jun 2009
• Growing up blind does not change the neural bases of Theory of Mind. 22 Jun 2009
• Nine-year incidence of visual impairment in the Barbados Eye Studies. 2 Jun 2009
• Prevalence of cataract surgery and postoperative visual outcome in Greater Beijing: the Beijing Eye Study. 2 Jun 2009
• Slow fade. Help for low vision. 30 May 2009
• Inappropriate enrollment of children in schools for the visually impaired in east Africa. 30 May 2009
• The impact of corrected and uncorrected refractive error on visual functioning: the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Visually Impaired Persons'

Definition: Persons with loss of vision such that there is an impact on activities of daily living.

Descriptor UI: D019987

Alternative terms: Visually Impaired Persons; Impaired Person, Visually; Impaired Persons, Visually; Person, Visually Impaired; Persons, Visually Impaired; Visually Impaired Person; Blind Persons; Blind Person; Person, Blind; Persons, Blind;

Related Mesh Headings: Blindness; Deaf-Blind Disorders;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data; rehabilitation;

Tree Number: M01.150.850;

History Note: 98