Cataract prevalence following a nationwide policy to shorten wait time for cataract surgery
| Autor: | Yvonne M. Buys, Sherif El-Defrawy, Sophia Y Liu, Graham E. Trope, Ya-Ping Jin, Ge Yang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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education.field_of_study
Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty genetic structures business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Eye disease Population Visual impairment Cataract surgery medicine.disease eye diseases Wait time Ophthalmology Community health medicine National average medicine.symptom Healthy aging education business Optometry |
| Zdroj: | Medical hypothesis discovery and innovation in ophthalmology. 10:86-94 |
| ISSN: | 2322-3219 |
| DOI: | 10.51329/mehdiophthal1426 |
| Popis: | Background: Cataract is an age-related eye disease. Visual impairment from cataract can be restored by cataract surgery. In 2004 the Canadian federal government invested in a multibillion dollar wait time strategy to shorten the wait time for cataract surgery, a government-insured health service in all Canadian jurisdictions. We assessed if this nationwide policy reduced the number of Canadians waiting for cataract surgery as more individuals with cataract were free of cataract following the rapidly conducted surgery. Methods: In this cross-sectional study we analyzed data from randomly selected individuals aged greater than or equal to 45 years responding to the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) in 2000/2001, 2003, 2005, and the CCHS Healthy Aging in 2008/2009. Information on cataract was obtained from self-reported questionnaire. The age- and sex-standardized prevalence of cataract was calculated for comparisons. Results: Cataract was reported by 0.93 million Canadians in 2000/2001, 0.99 million in 2003, 1.10 million in 2005, and 1.34 million in 2008/2009. This corresponds to an age- and sex-standardized prevalence of 8.9% in 2000/2001, 9.0% in 2003, 9.5% in 2005, and 10.2% (P |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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