title: Do we need to measure the vision of children?
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Leicester University Medical School.
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Fielder
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Moseley
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000150:complications; D009759:Nystagmus, Pathologic / Q000150:complications; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014787:Vision Tests / Q000379:methods*; D014792:Visual Acuity