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ReviewNPJ digital medicine2025

Wearable health devices for pediatric ophthalmology.

Naira Ikram, Nimesh A Patel, Joseph C Kvedar

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Review in NPJ digital medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Binocular Vision Anomalies: An Update on Prevalence, Impact, Technological and Treatment Developments and Current Challenges.Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Naira IkramHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. nairaikram@hms.harvard.edu.
Nimesh A PatelDepartment of Ophthalmology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Joseph C KvedarHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The shortage of pediatric ophthalmologists presents an opportunity to leverage existing tools and re-imagine care delivery to support this patient population. By directly interfacing with the eye, wearable health devices provide a localized and potentially more accurate assessment of certain eye conditions. In addition to early detection, wearable health-based devices (wearables) can enable data collection over time and serve as adjuvant treatment to the standard clinic- or surgical-based solutions. We highlight some innovations in wearables targeted for common categories of pediatric eye disease: refractive errors, strabismus, dry eye disease, and glaucoma. In addition to integrating preventive medicine with ophthalmology, wearables generate data that can be funneled into addressing research questions and refining device development.

Identifiers

PMID40506513
PMCPMC12162827

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