Patients' subjective assessment of the duration of cataract surgery: a case series.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Surgery duration is a source of preoperative anxiety for patients undergoing cataract surgery. To better inform patients, we evaluated the agreement between objective and patient-perceived surgery durations.

Design

Case series.

Setting

Public teaching university hospital (Paris, France).

Participants

During the study period, 368 cataract surgery cases performed on 285 patients were included, 85 cases were excluded from the final analysis. All patients who had uneventful phacoemulsification were included. Cases with any significant intraoperative adverse event or cases requiring additional anaesthesia other than topical were excluded. Resident performed cases were also excluded.

Primary and secondary outcomes

Procedures were timed (objective du

SUBMITTER: Rothschild PR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3651974 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature