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One million cataract surgeries: Swedish National Cataract Register 1992-2009.
J Cataract Refract Surg. 2011 Aug; 37(8):1539-45
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25 Aug 2011
Review / Commentary
DOI: 10.3410/f.12910956.14200055
The Swedish National Cataract Registry is the only registry of its type and scope in the world. This review gives an excellent snapshot of how far advanced western societies have come in the past 15 years in the management of cataract. It addresses most of the issues critical to the performance of top...Continue reading
The Swedish National Cataract Registry is the only registry of its type and scope in the world. This review gives an excellent snapshot of how far advanced western societies have come in the past 15 years in the management of cataract. It addresses most of the issues critical to the performance of top quality cataract surgery.
The Swedish National Cataract Registry provides a benchmark against which cataract surgical efforts can be evaluated to assure that we are continuing to provide better care.
The Swedish National Cataract Registry provides a benchmark against which cataract surgical efforts can be evaluated to assure that we are continuing to provide better care.
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This review summarizes data collected by the Swedish National Cataract Register, which now contains data pertaining to more than a million cataract surgery procedures, representing 95.6% of the surgeries performed in Sweden during 1992-2009. During this period, the rate of cataract surgery rose from 4.47 to 9.00 per 1000 inhabitants. The mean patient age increased until 1999 but has slowly decreased since then. Preoperative visual acuity has risen steadily. The distribution between the sexes was stable until 2000, after which the proportion of women slowly decreased. Registration of subjective benefit has brought new knowledge regarding indications and expectations. An improved questionnaire, Catquest-9SF has been used since 2008. The outcome register generally shows good results from the surgery. Endophthalmitis has decreased from 0.10% to below 0.040%.
Copyright © 2011 ASCRS and ESCRS. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2011.05.021
PMID: 21782099
