Comm Eye Health Vol. 15 No. 44 2002. Published online 01 December, 2002
Importance of monitoring cataract surgical outcomes
For too long, emphasis has been placed on the quantity of cataract surgical operations performed, rather than the outcome of such surgery, as an indicator of the performance of cataract surgical services. Fortunately, this is changing, with greater emphasis being placed on using the outcome of surgery as an indicator, in addition to the numbers of surgeries performed.
Articles in this issue –
- Importance of monitoring cataract surgical outcomes
- Monitoring cataract surgical outcomes: methods and tools
- Monitoring cataract surgical outcomes: ‘hand written’ registration method
- Monitoring cataract surgical outcomes: computerised systems
- Letter. Training a cataract surgeon
- Country-wide monitoring of cataract surgical outcomes
- The maintenance and repair of ophthalmic surgical instruments: training at the eye clinic
- Letter. Comparison of cataract surgery in a base hospital and in peripheral eye camps
- An audit of the use of ophthalmic theatre time