Day care cataract surgery in Central and Southern Italy: a multicentric survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cataract day surgery has rapidly gained worldwide acceptance, because the new surgical techniques and costs are generally lower than those involved in ordinary hospitalization. Cataract surgery serves as a proxy indicator of the trend towards day surgery hospitalization in Italy and, therefore, of regional variability in health-care delivery and cost. The aim of this study was to update the diffusion of cataract day surgery through various surgical ophthalmological centers in central and southern Italy during 2005.

Methods

A two-stage stratified cluster sampling method was used to draw a sample of Cataract Surgery Unit from Ophthalmic Units of central and southern Italy. A questionnaire was sent to 25 cataract surgery centers in nine health districts that represen

SUBMITTER: Cillino S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1797011 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature