pediatric vision screening: some general knowledge for pediatricians

Pediatric Vision Screening: some General Knowledge for Pediatricians

Primary vision care is recommended for infants and young children .Childhood is critical time to prevent loss of vision and to optimize treatment so some eye disorders in children must be diagnosed at this time.To detect risk factors and visual abnormalities, the eye screening done by pediatricians and other primary care providers is necessary. The process that should occur at each child visit ...

General pediatricians, pediatric subspecialists, and pediatric primary care.

OBJECTIVE To assess the respective roles of general pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists in the provision of primary pediatric care. DESIGN AND METHODS A practice characteristics questionnaire that included questions about primary care was sent to a random sample of 1616 board-certified and board-eligible active Fellows of the American Academy of Pediatrics; 1145 (70.9%) responded. Anal...

Pediatric vision screening.

Survey of Italian pediatricians’ perspectives and knowledge about neonatal screening

BACKGROUND The goal of newborn screening is early identification of babies with a high risk for disorders that may not be clinically evident at birth, but have severe consequences if untreated. New insight into inherited diseases and the ability to test for numerous diseases using new technique such as tandem mass spectrometry have made it practical to greatly expand the number of conditions te...

The Washington Metropolitan Pediatric Vision Screening Quality Control Assessment

Objective. To ascertain if parents are familiar with current recommendations on pediatric vision screening and to assess their knowledge of the roles that pediatricians, ophthalmologists and optometrists have in this screening process. Methods. A survey was targeted at parents to determine what the general public understands regarding vision screening. Results. The survey was conducted from Jan...

Infant oral health care: a survey of general dentists, pediatric dentists, and pediatricians in Virginia.

PURPOSE This study's purpose was to examine the current knowledge, attitudes, and experiences related to infant oral health for dental and medical providers in Virginia. METHODS A survey of infant oral health care was sent to: (a) 300 randomly selected general dentists; (b) 300 randomly selected pediatricians; and (c) all pediatric dentists in Virginia. Survey respondents were tabulated, and ...