Occupational Therapists Enhance Comprehensive Health Assessments for Children in Foster Care.

Aims: Children in foster care (CFC) have prevalent developmental health needs. Comprehensive health assessments (CHA) that include development evaluation are recommended for CFC. The impact of adding occupational therapy (OT) to multidisciplinary CHA teams is unknown.

Preliminary assessment of a standardized vision screening guideline in a pediatric inpatient rehabilitation unit.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a standardized vision screen guideline on occupational therapy vision screens in a pediatric inpatient rehabilitation unit.

Methods: Charts of patients admitted to a pediatric inpatient rehabilitation before guideline implementation (n = 47) versus charts after implementation (n = 47) were randomly, retrospectively reviewed to explore differences in visual skills screened and use of standardized assessments.

Results: Significant improvements (p < = 0.