AHRQ is offering an opportunity for public comment on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force draft recommendation on vision screening in children ages 1 to 5 years. To provide comments, please go to http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstf/uspstf_form/ and follow the directions for submitting comments. The public comment period is open until October 23, 2009. This public comment is part of an effort to increase the transparency of the methods and processes of the Task Force.
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Comments: Please, if you do this, let AHRQ know that vision screenings are inadequate for America's children. Comprehensive examinations are a must. Tell them that the research on vision screening is so poor that the authors of at least one study couldn't determine if vision screenings do what they are supposed to do or not!
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2415/9/1/3
Effectiveness of screening preschool children for amblyopia: a systematic review
Their conclusion was "Population based preschool vision screening programmes cannot be sufficiently assessed by the literature currently available. However, it is most likely that the present systematic review contains the most detailed description of the main limitations in current available literature evaluating these programmes. Therefore, future research work should be guided by the findings of this publication. DM
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