Open AccessCataract prevalence following a nationwide policy to shorten wait time for cataract surgery
Author(s) -
Ge Yang,
Sherif ElDefrawy,
Graham E. Trope,
Yvonne M. Buys,
Sophia Y. Liu,
Ya-Ping Jin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
medical hypothesis discovery and innovation in ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2322-4436
pISSN - 2322-3219
DOI - 10.51329/mehdiophthal1426
Subject(s) - medicine , graduation (instrument) , cataract surgery , demography , government (linguistics) , cross sectional study , optometry , pediatrics , ophthalmology , geometry , mathematics , pathology , sociology , linguistics , philosophy
Cataract is an age-related eye disease. Visual impairment from cataract can be restored by cataract surgery. In 2004 the Canadian federal government invested in a multibillion dollar wait time strategy to shorten the wait time for cataract surgery, a government-insured health service in all Canadian jurisdictions. We assessed if this nationwide policy reduced the number of Canadians waiting for cataract surgery as more individuals with cataract were free of cataract following the rapidly conducted surgery.