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[Personal computer used in visual function screening].

M Menozzi
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BACKGROUND: The number of medical screenings is increasing. This fact is specially pronounced in the field of occupational health. Due to restricted financial resources and limitations in time there is a need for rationalisation in medical screenings. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Possible uses of personal computers (PC) enabling organisational and financial benefits in medical screenings are suggested. By means of a test for colour-blindness it is shown how unfavourable technical conditions may be by-passed. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: Rationalisation in medical screenings can be achieved when using the PC as a multi-functional screening-device as well as an expert system, measuring apparatus and as a communication-device. Due to a lack of literature it is difficult to discuss possible effects of technical differences between PC-based screenings of visual functions and screenings where "traditional". Reliability, sensitivity and validity is insufficiently investigated for many of the commercial available screening-devices based on a PC.

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M Menozzi. 1995. [Personal computer used in visual function screening].. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2008-1035476

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