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Table 2 Availability of ophthalmic equipment at each hospital level

From: Ophthalmic services in Shanghai 2017: a cataract-centric city-wide government survey

Ophthalmic Equipment

Coverage Rate (%)

Public

Private hospitals

EENT Hospital

Other tertiary hospitals

Secondary hospitals

Slit lamp

100

100

100

100

Direct ophthalmoscopy

100

100

95.7

100

Indirect ophthalmoscopy

100

76.9

15.2

60

Tonometer

Applanation

100

34.6

4.3

20

Schiotz

100

15.4

21.7

20

NCT

100

100

97.8

100

Tonopen

100

11.5

0

40

Perimeter

Static

100

73.1

50

100

Goldman

100

19.2

10.9

80

Autorefractor

100

88.5

89.1

100

Fundus camera

100

84.6

84.8

100

Nd Yag laser machine

100

73.1

39.1

80

Laser treatment machine of fundus

100

88.5

47.8

100

Biometry

A-ultrasound

100

76.9

71.7

100

IOLmaster

100

69.2

34.8

100

B-ultrasound

100

76.9

73.9

100

UBM

100

53.8

13

100

Lenstar

100

30.8

4.3

0

Ophthalmic operating microscope

100

100

67.4

100

Fluorescence angiography equipment

100

69.2

47.8

100

ICG angiography equipment

100

30.8

13

20

Corneal topographer

100

61.5

23.9

80

OCT

Anterior-segment

100

42.3

26.1

50

Glaucoma

100

38.5

21.7

80

Fundus

100

84.6

71.7

100

Visual electrophysiology examination machine

100

61.5

15.2

100

Specular microscope of cornea

100

76.9

47.8

100

Confocal microscope

100

15.4

2.2

20

Wavefront aberrometer

100

26.9

0

20

Contrast sensitivity device

100

26.9

2.2

50

Corneal thickness measuring device

100

46.2

26.1

20

Lens box

100

96.2

84.8

100

Comprehensive refractometer

100

88.5

67.4

100

Quick sterilizer

100

61.5

39.1

100

Excimer laser instrument

100

26.9

2.2

100

Femtosecond laser equipment

For refractive surgery

100

23.1

0

100

For cataract surgery

100

3.8

0

80

Phacoemulsification instrument

100

80.8

67.4

100

Vitrectomy instrument

100

61.5

28.3

100

  1. EENT Hospital Eye and Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital of Fudan University, NCT non-contact tonometer, Nd Yag neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet, UBM ultrasound biomicroscope, ICG indocyanine green, OCT optical coherence tomography