SAN FRANCISCO — Active outreach, education and ensuring that spectacles are available at an affordable cost are key strategies to address the challenge of uncorrected refractive error globally, according to a speaker.
Effective coverage begins with “proactive discovery, not just sitting in your clinic, but going out and finding patients, leaving no child or patient behind,” M. Scott Hickman, MD, MSc, said at the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting.
Based on The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness definition of blindness, which is vision of 20/400 or