Effective cataract surgical coverage in adults aged 50 years and older: estimates from population-based surveys in 55 countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cataract is the leading cause of blindness globally. Effective cataract surgical coverage (eCSC) measures the number of people in a population who have been operated on for cataract, and had a good outcome, as a proportion of all people operated on or requiring surgery. Therefore, eCSC describes service access (ie, cataract surgical coverage, [CSC]) adjusted for quality. The 74th World Health Assembly endorsed a global target for eCSC of a 30-percentage point increase by 2030. To enable monitoring of progress towards this target, we analysed Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB) survey data to establish baseline estimates of eCSC and CSC.

Methods

In this secondary analysis, we used data from 148 RAAB surveys undertaken in 55 countries (2003-21) to calcula

SUBMITTER: McCormick I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7618287 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature