Results of a primary care-based quality improvement project to optimize chart-based vision screening for preschool age children.

Purpose: To design chart-based vision screening for preschool-aged children.

Methods: Our program consisted of educational sessions for providers as well as hands-on training for practice staff. We evaluated the intervention through pre- and post-intervention review of medical records.

Ocular blast injuries in mass-casualty incidents: the marathon bombing in Boston, Massachusetts, and the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas.

Purpose: To report the ocular injuries sustained by survivors of the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombing and the April 17, 2013, fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas.

Design: Multicenter, cross-sectional, retrospective, comparative case series.

Participants: Seventy-two eyes of 36 patients treated at 12 institutions were included in the study.

Legislative issues facing pediatric ophthalmology in 2006.

Purpose Of Review: There has been a surge in legislative activity concerning children's vision in recent years. This review will summarize and compare newly enacted state statutes and review legislation that has been introduced at both the state and federal level. Detailed reference sites are provided and may be a useful resource for those involved in legislative advocacy.