Benefits of consulting a certified orthoptist in a pediatric vision screening program
| Autor: | Reina Kawano, Shigenori Yoshitake, Yoshikazu Uchikawa, Shogo Tamura, Shin Onitsuka, Mayumi Okano |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Certification genetic structures business.industry Allied Health Personnel MEDLINE Amblyopia 03 medical and health sciences Ophthalmology Vision Screening 0302 clinical medicine Ophthalmologic examination Child Preschool Family medicine Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health 030221 ophthalmology & optometry medicine Humans business Referral and Consultation Primary screening |
| Zdroj: | Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. 24:371-374 |
| ISSN: | 1091-8531 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jaapos.2020.08.008 |
| Popis: | In Japan, all 3-year-old children undergo a three-step municipal vision screening that includes home-based screening, secondary screening at a health center, and comprehensive ophthalmologic examination, if warranted. We investigated whether screening by a certified orthoptist (CO) could improve the detection of visual dysfunctions, including amblyopia. Three-year-olds in Nobeoka City were invited to undergo primary and secondary screenings from April 2008 to March 2011. COs performed the secondary screening tests; children with a positive secondary screening received a comprehensive ophthalmologic examination. Of the 3,303 eligible children, 98 were positive on detailed examination. Of these, 25% were classified as false-negatives. Eight children with amblyopia in the false-negative group accounted for 24% of all 33 amblyopia cases detected on detailed examination. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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