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Table 4 Cataract surgical procedures provided at each hospital level

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

Data on cataract surgery

EENT Hospital

Other tertiary hospitals

Secondary hospitals

Private hospitals

Total

Cataract type

 Age-related cataract

7132 (42.0%)

20,747 (56.6%)

6959 (68.8%)

37,949 (68.3%)

72,787 (61.0%)

 Highly myopic cataract

5604 (33.0%)

8494 (23.2%)

1346 (13.3%)

9654 (17.4%)

25,098 (21.0%)

 Diabetic cataract

2377 (14.0%)

5362 (14.6%)

1428 (14.1%)

7214 (13.0%)

16,381 (13.7%)

 Traumatic cataract

672 (4.0%)

938 (2.6%)

66 (0.7%)

29 (0.1%)

1705 (1.4%)

 Congenial cataract

664 (3.9%)

845 (2.3%)

67 (0.7%)

28 (0.1%)

1604 (1.3%)

 Others

533 (3.1%)

244 (0.7%)

248 (2.5%)

664 (1.2%)

1689 (1.4%)

 Total

16,982 (14.2%)

36,630 (30.7%)

10,114 (8.5%)

55,538 (46.6%)

119,264

Surgical techniques used in cataract surgery

 Standard phacoemulsification

15,425 (90.8%)

35,019 (95.6%)

9840 (97.3%)

53,216 (95.8%)

113,500 (95.2%)

 FLACS

251 (1.5%)

28 (0.1%)

0 (0.0%)

1358 (2.4%)

1637 (1.4%)

 Extracapsular cataract extraction

130 (0.8)

334 (0.9%)

238 (2.4%)

316 (0.6%)

1018 (0.9%)

 Intracapsular cataract extraction

15 (0.1%)

19 (0.1%)

0 (0.0%)

2 (0.0%)

36 (0.0%)

 Scleral fixation of IOL

325 (1.9%)

305 (0.8%)

36 (0.4%)

320 (0.6%)

986 (0.8%)

 Others

836 (4.9%)

925 (2.5%)

0 (0.0%)

326 (0.6%)

2087 (1.7%)

 Total

16,982 (14.2%)

36,630 (30.7%)

10,114 (8.5%)

55,538 (46.6%)

119,264

IOL used in cataract surgery

 Monofocal IOL

15,866 (97.6%)

35,023 (98.1%)

9891 (99.9%)

53,322 (96.7%)

114,102 (97.5%)

 Multifocal IOL

247 (1.5%)

379 (1.1%)

11 (0.1%)

1064 (1.9%)

1701 (1.5%)

 Toric IOL

139 (0.9%)

276 (0.8%)

1 (0.0%)

722 (1.3%)

1138 (1.0%)

 Toric multifocal IOL

0 (0.0%)

19 (0.1%)

0 (0.0%)

32 (0.1%)

51 (0.0%)

 Total

16,252 (13.9%)

35,697 (30.5%)

9903 (8.5%)

55,140 (47.1%)

116,992

CTR used in cataract surgery

 CTR

228 (51.7%)

93 (76.2%)

1 (100.0%)

26 (83.9%)

348 (58.5%)

 Modified CTR

213 (48.3%)

29 (23.8%)

0 (0.0%)

5 (16.1%)

247 (41.5%)

 Total

441 (74.1%)

122 (20.5%)

1 (0.2%)

31 (5.2%)

595

  1. The numbers in brackets represent the percentage of the total number of procedures performed at each hospital level. The numbers in brackets in the total row represent the percentage of the total number of procedures performed at all hospitals
  2. EENT Hospital Eye and Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital of Fudan University, FLACS femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery, IOL intraocular lens, CTR capsular tension ring