Visual acuity measured with a smartphone app is more accurate than Snellen testing by emergency department providers.

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Abstract

To assess the accuracy of best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) measured by non-ophthalmic emergency department (ED) staff with a standard Snellen chart versus an automated application (app) on a handheld smartphone (Paxos Checkup, San Francisco, CA, USA).

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Journal

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Graefes Arch. Clin. Exp. Ophthalmol.

Title: Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie

Publisher: Springer Nature America, Inc

ISSN (Electronic): 1435-702X

ISSN (Print): 0721-832X

Publication date (Electronic): Jun 2016

Volume: 254

Issue: 6

Affiliations

[1 ] Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.

[2 ] Department of Ophthalmology, Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, 2452 Watson Ct, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

[3 ] Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston, Boston, MA, USA.

[4 ] Department of Ophthalmology, Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, 2452 Watson Ct, Palo Alto, CA, USA. dariusm@stanford.edu.

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Publisher Item ID: 10.1007/s00417-016-3291-4

DOI: 10.1007/s00417-016-3291-4

PubMed ID: 26931323

SO-VID: f3e685a6-e3cb-49e6-a60c-66925b1a8386

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Keywords: Vision testing,Telemedicine,Visual acuity,Emergency department

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Keywords: Vision testing, Telemedicine, Visual acuity, Emergency department

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