Tex. Occupations Code § 351.353
INITIAL EXAMINATION OF PATIENT
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- Tex. Occupations Code § 351.353, INITIAL EXAMINATION OF PATIENT, Texas, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/699124
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To ensure adequate examination of a patient for whom an optometrist or therapeutic optometrist signs or causes to be signed an ophthalmic lens prescription, in the initial examination of the patient the optometrist or therapeutic optometrist shall make and record, if possible, the following findings concerning the patient's condition:
(1) case history, consisting of ocular, physical, occupational, and other pertinent information;
(2) visual acuity;
(3) the results of a biomicroscopy examination, including an examination of lids, cornea, and sclera;
(4) the results of an internal ophthalmoscopic examination, including an examination of media and fundus;
(5) the results of a static retinoscopy, O.D., O.S., or autorefractor;
(6) subjective findings, far point and near point;
(7) assessment of binocular function;
(8) amplitude or range of accommodation;
(9) tonometry; and
(10) angle of vision, to right and to left.