PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
(a) An optometrist shall use professional judgment to determine what services are to be provided to his patients. Records of the actual services rendered shall be maintained for a minimum of 7 years after the last consultation with a patient. Records must indicate when a referral has been made to a physician. An examination may include the following:
- (1) Complete history.
- (2) Uncorrected visual acuity.
- (3) Detailed report of the external findings.
- (4) Ophthalmoscopic examination (media, fundus, blood vessels, disc).
- (5) Corneal curvature measurements (dioptral).
- (6) Static retinoscopy.
- (7) Amplitude of convergence and accommodation.
- (8) Ocular muscle balance.
- (9) Subjective refraction test.
- (10) Fusion.
- (11) Stereopsis.
- (12) Color vision.
- (13) Visual fields (confrontation).
- (14) Visual fields including manual or automated perimetry.
- (15) Prescription given and visual acuity obtained.
- (16) Biomicroscopy (slit lamp).
- (17) Tonometry.
- (18) Prognosis, stable or unstable.
- (19) Pharmaceutical agents used or prescribed, including strength, dosage, number of refills and adverse reaction, if applicable.
- (b) An optometrist shall provide a patient with a copy of the patient’s contact lens prescription in accordance with the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act (15 U.S.C.A. § § 7601—7610). An optometrist shall provide a patient with a copy of the patient’s spectacle prescription in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission Ophthalmic Practice Rules (16 CFR 456.1—456.4).
Authority
The provisions of this § 23.71 issued under section 3(a)(2.1) and (3)(b)(9) and (14) of the Optometric Practice and Licensure Act (63 P.S. § 244.3(a)(2.1) and (3)(b)(9) and (14)).
Source
The provisions of this § 23.71 adopted October 28, 1988, effective October 29, 1988, 18 Pa.B. 4863; amended June 3, 2005, effective June 4, 2005, 35 Pa.B. 3220. Immediately preceding text appears at serial pages (305101) to (305102).