journal article Apr 16, 2015

Cataract surgery audit at an Australian urban teaching hospital

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AbstractBackgroundTo provide local data on visual acuity and surgical outcomes for cataract surgery performed in an Australian teaching hospital.DesignContinuous audit over 7 years in a public teaching hospital.ParticipantsA total of 3740 eyes had cataract surgery performed at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, South Australia, from May 2006 to September 2013.MethodsVisual acuity and complication rates were recorded for cataract surgery cases operated on between May 2006 and September 2013 on a digital database with data entry contemporaneous with final follow‐up.Main Outcome MeasuresVisual acuity and surgical complications.ResultsOf the patients, 91.4% achieved postoperative best‐measured vision better than preoperative best‐measured vision. The rate of posterior capsular tear was 2.59%, endophthalmitis was 0.11% and the overall complication rate was 11.7%.ConclusionsThis audit is the first to document modern cataract surgery, overwhelmingly dominated by phacoemulsification in an Australian population and can be used to benchmark cataract surgery outcome in an urban Australian population.
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Apr 16, 2015
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43(6)
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514-522
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Shyalle K Kahawita, Michael Goggin (2015). Cataract surgery audit at an Australian urban teaching hospital. Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology, 43(6), 514-522. https://doi.org/10.1111/ceo.12496