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Do we need to Measure the Vision of Children?

Author(s) -

Alistair R. Fielder,

M J Moseley

Publication year - 1988

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107688808100705

Subject(s) - measure (data warehouse) , visual acuity , medicine , vision test , test (biology) , optometry , pediatrics , computer science , ophthalmology , data mining , paleontology , biology

With the advent of the acuity card procedure, it is now possible to measure quantitatively the vision of infants and young children in a routine clinical setting. Over a 19 month period 1177 tests were performed on 586 patients; ages ranged from 0.5 weeks to 23 years. Overall 1102 (93%) were successful, as were 588 of the 627 (94%) tests performed on children under the age of two years when no conventional acuity test is possible. The results serve as a background on which the argument for and against the need to measure the vision of children is considered.

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