IMI – Clinical Management Guidelines Report

Abstract

Best practice clinical guidelines for myopia control involve an understanding of the epidemiology of myopia, risk factors, visual environment interventions, and optical and pharmacologic treatments, as well as skills to translate the risks and benefits of a given myopia control treatment into lay language for both the patient and their parent or caregiver. This report details evidence-based best practice management of the pre-, stable, and the progressing myope, including risk factor identification, examination, selection of treatment strategies, and guidelines for ongoing management. Practitioner considerations such as informed consent, prescribing off-label treatment, and guides for patient and parent communication are detailed. The future research directions of myopia interventions and treatments are discussed, along with the provision of clinical references, resources, and recommendations for continuing professional education in this growing area of clinical practice.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.18-25977
Divisions: College of Health & Life Sciences
Additional Information: Copyright 2019 The Authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
Uncontrolled Keywords: Clinical considerations,Myopia control,Myopia progression,Patient communication,Practitioner education,Ophthalmology,Sensory Systems,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Publication ISSN: 1552-5783
Last Modified: 25 Mar 2024 08:30
Date Deposited: 07 Mar 2019 12:42
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2019-02-28
Accepted Date: 2018-10-19
Authors: Gifford, Kate L.
Richdale, Kathryn
Kang, Pauline
Aller, Thomas A.
Lam, Carly S.
Liu, Y. Maria
Michaud, Langis
Mulder, Jeroen
Orr, Janis B.
Rose, Kathryn A.
Saunders, Kathryn J.
Seidel, Dirk
Tideman, J. Willem L.
Sankaridurg, Padmaja

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