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Can the postoperative follow-up visit be deferred up to four weeks after an uneventful cataract surgery? - A randomized controlled trial

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to compare the postoperative visual outcome after a Day 0 examination in patients with two follow-ups, one between Day 3 to Day 7 and other between Day 25 to Day 30 to those with a single ophthalmic follow-up directly after 25–30 Days and to assess the safety of de...

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Autores principales: Deshpande, Rahul, Vora, Ushma, Mangiraj, Varsha, Dole, Kuldeep, Deshpande, Madan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8302296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34011710
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_2390_20
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author Deshpande, Rahul
Vora, Ushma
Mangiraj, Varsha
Dole, Kuldeep
Deshpande, Madan
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Dole, Kuldeep
Deshpande, Madan
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description PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to compare the postoperative visual outcome after a Day 0 examination in patients with two follow-ups, one between Day 3 to Day 7 and other between Day 25 to Day 30 to those with a single ophthalmic follow-up directly after 25–30 Days and to assess the safety of deferral of the first follow-up visit at 1 week. METHODS: Randomized Controlled Trial was conducted at a tertiary eye care hospital, with 848 patients enrolled for the study. Patients meeting the inclusion criteria were selected. Their pre-operative and post-operative data was collected and the patients were divided into groups based on the type of cataract surgery and the postoperative follow-up protocol through randomization. RESULTS: No significant difference was observed in the postoperative visual outcome in patients that underwent postoperative review at Day 3–7 and Day 25–30 as opposed to those that followed up directly at Day 25–30 after a mandatory Day 0 examination for all patients. CONCLUSION: In patients with no preexisting ocular or systemic comorbidity undergoing an uneventful cataract surgery, the postoperative follow-up visit can be safely deferred until 4 weeks, without any impact on the postoperative visual outcome, thereby conserving the available resources which can be deviated towards better eye care services.
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spelling pubmed-83022962021-08-02 Can the postoperative follow-up visit be deferred up to four weeks after an uneventful cataract surgery? - A randomized controlled trial Deshpande, Rahul Vora, Ushma Mangiraj, Varsha Dole, Kuldeep Deshpande, Madan Indian J Ophthalmol Original Article PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to compare the postoperative visual outcome after a Day 0 examination in patients with two follow-ups, one between Day 3 to Day 7 and other between Day 25 to Day 30 to those with a single ophthalmic follow-up directly after 25–30 Days and to assess the safety of deferral of the first follow-up visit at 1 week. METHODS: Randomized Controlled Trial was conducted at a tertiary eye care hospital, with 848 patients enrolled for the study. Patients meeting the inclusion criteria were selected. Their pre-operative and post-operative data was collected and the patients were divided into groups based on the type of cataract surgery and the postoperative follow-up protocol through randomization. RESULTS: No significant difference was observed in the postoperative visual outcome in patients that underwent postoperative review at Day 3–7 and Day 25–30 as opposed to those that followed up directly at Day 25–30 after a mandatory Day 0 examination for all patients. CONCLUSION: In patients with no preexisting ocular or systemic comorbidity undergoing an uneventful cataract surgery, the postoperative follow-up visit can be safely deferred until 4 weeks, without any impact on the postoperative visual outcome, thereby conserving the available resources which can be deviated towards better eye care services. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-06 2021-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8302296/ /pubmed/34011710 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_2390_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Indian Journal of Ophthalmology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Deshpande, Rahul
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Mangiraj, Varsha
Dole, Kuldeep
Deshpande, Madan
Can the postoperative follow-up visit be deferred up to four weeks after an uneventful cataract surgery? - A randomized controlled trial
title Can the postoperative follow-up visit be deferred up to four weeks after an uneventful cataract surgery? - A randomized controlled trial
title_full Can the postoperative follow-up visit be deferred up to four weeks after an uneventful cataract surgery? - A randomized controlled trial
title_fullStr Can the postoperative follow-up visit be deferred up to four weeks after an uneventful cataract surgery? - A randomized controlled trial
title_full_unstemmed Can the postoperative follow-up visit be deferred up to four weeks after an uneventful cataract surgery? - A randomized controlled trial
title_short Can the postoperative follow-up visit be deferred up to four weeks after an uneventful cataract surgery? - A randomized controlled trial
title_sort can the postoperative follow-up visit be deferred up to four weeks after an uneventful cataract surgery? - a randomized controlled trial
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8302296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34011710
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_2390_20
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