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Visual impairment and nursing home placement in older Australians: the Blue Mountains Eye Study

Jie Jin Wang Department of Ophthalmology, Save Sight Institute
,
Paul Mitchell Department of Public Health, the University of Sydney
,
Robert G. Cumming National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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Wayne Smith Department of Ophthalmology, Save Sight InstituteCorrespondence [email protected]
Pages 3-13 | Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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