Disease relevance of Vision Screening

• Two infant vision screening programmes: prediction and prevention of strabismus and amblyopia from photo- and videorefractive screening [1].
• Two infant vision screening programmes on total populations in the Cambridge Health District have been designed to identify manifest strabismus and strabismogenic and amblyogenic refractive errors at 7-9 months of age [1].
• We present results using modified clinical technique vision screening and data from the Orinda Longitudinal Study of Myopia on a large, population-based sample of nonstrabismic children to document the prevalence of phoria with age [2].
• Socialized medicine hooray? Part 2. War surgeon; Rx of superior oblique paresis; High AC/A illusion? Stereopsis with no macula; Vision screening: a review: and a breakout [3]!
• The exotropia/esotropia ratio were increased in comparison with past studies in Japan. The school eye doctors need to be more diligent in identifying and diagnosing various types of strabismus and amblyopia in order to contribute to the school vision screening program already in place in Japan[4]

High impact information on Vision Screening

• Peripheral vision screening for driving in retinitis pigmentosa patients [5].
• Information on factors that might be associated with myopia was collected from parents or guardians by self-administered questionnaires distributed before the vision screening [6].
• Patients with PCA were less accurate on the Cortical Vision Screening Test (t = 6.0; p < 0.001) and in copying the Rey-Osterreith Complex Figure (t = 6.0; p < 0.001), in comparison to the tAD group [7].
• PURPOSE: Nova Scotia has a vision screening program which assesses children aged 4[1\2] to 5[1\2] years [8].
• METHODS: Children ages 8 to 15 years were recruited from two public and 2 private elementary schools in Southern California. The CI Symptom Survey (CISS) was administered to all children before a Modified Clinical Technique vision screening [9].

Biological context of Vision Screening

• During a vision screening of 6,556 National Service pre-enlistees aged 18-19 years at the Medical Classification Centre of Central Manpower Base, 48 subjects were found to have visual acuity of 6/12 or less in one or both eyes in the absence of ocular pathology [10].
• This article discusses a statewide vision screening program that utilizes trained and certified vision screening technicians under the auspices of the Department of Public Health. Public Act 81-174, the Child Vision and Hearing Test Act, mandates periodic vision screening of children using accepted and approved instruments and standards [11].

Associations of Vision Screening with chemical compounds

• Following last month's article on the Display Screen Equipment Regulations Hazel Montague looks at this specific duty and describes how one company has taken a proactive approach to setting up a vision screening programme [12].

Gene context of Vision Screening

• Binocular Polaroid Test for vision screening of pre-school age children [13].
• Preliminary report of the Colorado School Vision Screening Interdisciplinary Task Force [14].
• We take a look at the challenges school nurses face, and an AOA program designed to reach out to them and improve the quality of vision screenings [15].
• The ninth systematic review (Snowdon and Stewart-Brown 1997) from the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination concludes that the lack of good evidence about the effectiveness of preschool vision screening justifies the withdrawal of the programme [16].
• This week's report in Nursing Standard (p44) looks at the issues of vision screening for primary school children [17].

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