Sahel Medical Journal, 2015 Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of uncorrected refractive error among students in three selected secondary schools in Birnin Kebbi metropolis as many children with poor vision due to refractive error remain ...
Aliyu Hamza Balarabe +2 more
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Paediatric vision screening by non-healthcare volunteers: evidence based practices
BMC Medical Education, 2019 The purpose of this study was to test the sensitivity and specificity of eight undergraduate volunteer examiners conducting vision screening tests in a community setting, in order to determine if non-eye care professionals were able to be trained to an ...
K. Sabri +4 more
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What are appropriate screening tests for infants and children? [PDF]
, 2006 There is adequate evidence for screening neonates for hemoglobinopathies, congenital hypothyroidism, phenylketonuria (strength of recommendation [SOR]: A), and cystic fibrosis (SOR: B).
Biagioli, Frances E. +2 more
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Evidence-based preschool-age vision screening: health policy considerations
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2019 BackgroundThere are many causes of visual impairment, and even blindness, which are treatable or at least preventable. Two such conditions are strabismus (crossed-eye, squint) and refractive error (visual image not focused on the most sensitive part of ...
D. Zimmerman +5 more
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Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, 2017 Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate ocular healthcare-seeking behaviours and vision screening outcomes of nursing staff at a tertiary eye care hospital. Methods: This study was conducted between April and September 2016 among all 500 nurses employed
Ruhi A. Khan +4 more
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To Determine the Risk-Based Screening Interval for Diabetic Retinopathy: Development and Validation of Risk Algorithm from a Retrospective Cohort Study [PDF]
Diabetes & Metabolism JournalBackground The optimal screening interval for diabetic retinopathy (DR) remains controversial. This study aimed to develop a risk algorithm to predict the individual risk of referable sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR) in a mainly Chinese ...
Jinxiao Lian +7 more
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Visual Profile of Children who Passed or Failed the UK School Vision Screening Protocol
British and Irish Orthoptic Journal, 2019 Background: We applied the National Screening Committee vision screening protocol [pass criterion monocular acuity ≤ 0.2 LogMAR in both eyes(BE)] to children four to five years old to investigate the visual profile of children who passed/failed. Previous
Sara McCullough, Kathryn Saunders
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Deep-Learning for Classification of Colorectal Polyps on Whole-Slide Images
, 2017 Histopathological characterization of colorectal polyps is an important principle for determining the risk of colorectal cancer and future rates of surveillance for patients. This characterization is time-intensive, requires years of specialized training,
Hassanpour, Saeed +7 more
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Combining Fine- and Coarse-Grained Classifiers for Diabetic Retinopathy Detection
, 2020 Visual artefacts of early diabetic retinopathy in retinal fundus images are usually small in size, inconspicuous, and scattered all over retina. Detecting diabetic retinopathy requires physicians to look at the whole image and fixate on some specific ...
Adrià Recasens +13 more
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National survey of paediatric vision screening programs across Canada: Identifying major gaps and call to action [PDF]
, 2021 Yasmin Jindani +3 more
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