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 ...

CONTEXT Screening could identify preschool-aged children with vision problems at a critical period of visual development and lead to treatments that could improve vision. OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of screening preschool-aged children for impaired visual acuity on health outcomes. METHODS We searched Medline from 1950 to July 2009 and the Cochrane Library through the third qua...