Race, Ethnicity, Insurance, and Population Density Associations with Pediatric Strabismus and Strabismic Amblyopia in the IRIS® Registry.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate the associations of sociodemographic factors with pediatric strabismus diagnosis and outcomes.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Participants

American Academy of Ophthalmology IRIS® Registry (Intelligent Research in Sight) patients with strabismus diagnosed before the age of 10 years.

Methods

Multivariable regression models evaluated the associations of race and ethnicity, insurance, population density, and ophthalmologist ratio with age at strabismus diagnosis, diagnosis of amblyopia, residual amblyopia, and strabismus surgery. Survival analysis evaluated the same predictors of interest with the outcome of time to strabismus surgery.

Main outcome measures

Age at strabismus diagnosis, rate of amblyopia and residual amblyopia, and rat

SUBMITTER: Rajesh AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10527204 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature