Refractive Error Findings in Students Who Failed School-based Vision Screening.
Xinxing GuoAngeline M NguyenHursuong VongsachangAlyssa M KretzM Rani MukherjeeAmanda J NeitzelAhmed F ShakarchiDavid S FriedmanMichael X RepkaMegan E CollinsPublished in: Ophthalmic epidemiology (2021)
A Baltimore school-based vision program identified a substantial number of students with refractive error in a high-poverty urban community. Over 1/3 students who failed vision screening had clinically significant refractive error, with black and Latinx students at higher risk of having myopia and astigmatism.