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Validation of a vision screening service according to AFSOP recommendations

This study evaluated the accuracy of the diagnostic parameters used in the French Association for Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AFSOP) screening protocol performed by an orthoptist in relation to the reference standard ophthalmology examination. The study also evaluated parent satisfaction...

Being more consistent with screening for convergence insufficiency

This prospective cases series aimed to identify the average values and sensitivity of clinical measurements of convergence to aid diagnosis of convergence insufficiency (CI). Children and adults presenting over a two-year period with symptoms including diplopia when reading, headache with...

The next wave of AI in ophthalmology: From screening to communication

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping ophthalmology, moving from research laboratories into everyday clinical care [1]. With its strong reliance on imaging and pattern recognition, ophthalmology is uniquely positioned to benefit from AI innovations. These developments range from autonomous disease screening...

Oxford Diabetes Library – Diabetic Retinopathy: Screening to Treatment (second edition)

This book encapsulates what working in diabetic eye disease is all about: the multidisciplinary team. It takes you through the patient pathway, from screening to grading to management of diabetes, as well as management of eye disease, dealing with all...

Hybrid free vision screening for at-risk, low-income families

Give Kids Sight Day (GKSD) is an outreach programme at Wills Eye Hospital to provide free vision screening, ophthalmic examinations and glasses. It started in 2009 and has seen >11,000 children. Its primary aim is to reach high-risk families including...

Open-field autorefraction screening

This study aimed to determine the efficacy of the Shin-Nippon NVision-K5001 autorefractometer using the open-field refractometry principle in the elimination of accommodation in children. One hundred and fourteen patients aged three to six years were recruited. After excluding ocular pathology...

AI-Based devices in national screening programmes: barriers and challenges

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) may have long-term complications and is recorded as a leading cause of blindness. National DR screening programmes have effectively reduced severe visual loss by timely detection and subsequent treatment of sight-threatening proliferative DR and diabetic macular oedema....

A practical approach to uveitis screening in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis

The multinational Interdisciplinary Working Group for Uveitis in Children consists of 10 paediatric rheumatologists and five paediatric ophthalmologists with expertise in paediatric uveitis. They identified a simplified screening recommendation to enable local eyecare professionals (ECPs) to screen children with juvenile...

Fundus photography in Malawi – setting up a screening programmefor diabetic retinopathy

We present the case of a 53-year-old lady who presented to the diabetes outpatient clinic at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH), Lilongwe, Malawi. She was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus six years ago, for which she takes metformin orally. She...

Screening for ROP using wide-angle digital retinal photography by non-ophthalmologists

This is a systematic review article to evaluate the accuracy of digital retinal photography (DRP) performed by trained personnel (non-ophthalmologists) in diagnosing clinically significant retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). The authors used search engines including Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL and Cochrane databases....

The Sickle Cell Retinopathy Network is leading global change in screening and management

Sickle cell disease or disorder (SCD) is one of the most neglected health conditions in the world. A strong hypothesis is that this is because SCD affects people of African, Caribbean and other Global Majority communities and has received disproportionately...

Features from screening programme referrals pre and post pandemic

In this study the authors conducted an analysis of demographics, referral rates and prevalence of various ophthalmic assessments among children referred to an ophthalmologist through the UCI eye mobile programme. They further evaluated the influence of socio-economic factors and the...