The member has been educated about the risks and benefits of cataract surgery, including alternatives to treatment and the member determines if the expected reduction in the disability outweighs the potential risk, cost and inconvenience of surgery. Persons blind in one eye: Cataract removal surgery ...
Physicians have stated that the rationale for routinely using anesthesia care for cataract surgery is the assumption that cataract surgery patients are at high risk for developing systemic perioperative complications because of their age and comorbid conditions. However, whether these patient factors, or ...
Each allergic disease was defined as three or more occasions of diagnosis within 1year with dedicated ICD-10 codes. The primary endpoint was newly received cataract surgery during the follow-up period. In total, 447,883 subjects had at least one allergic disease. During the mean follow-up of...
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Methods : Using the American Academy of Ophthalmology IRIS Registry, patients undergoing cataract surgery between 2014 and 2022 (CPT codes), presenting with endophthalmitis (ICD 10 code) within 42 days post-cataract surgery, and having a record of being treated with VIT or vitreous tap with ...
decided to focus on low-value preoperative testing before cataract surgery. Before the intervention, the QI nurse from LAC-USC who led the intervention participated in a 10-month improvement advisor professional development course from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.32 Applying QI principles ...
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Our study identified age, laterality, and AL as three factors affecting the decision over whether IOL implantation was performed in a primary CE surgery. Of these, age was found to be a major influential factor in surgical decision-making, and IOLs were implanted along with primary CE in more...
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