Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40082703›Full record

ReviewEye (London, England)2025

The future of cataract surgery.

David O'Brart

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Review in Eye (London, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  9. Global challenges for lens and cataract research.Frontiers in ophthalmology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

David O'BrartDepartment of Ophthalmology, St. Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, London, SE1 7EH, UK. david.obrart@gstt.nhs.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1065-3166

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The topic of the 2024 Cambridge Ophthalmology Symposium was "Evolution and the Eye". The topic of this paper is to discuss various "evolutionary" pressures that may shape the future of cataract surgery (CS) over the next decades. These pressures include: The need to improve CS access; The need to improve sustainability; The development and introduction of new technologies, and the incorporation of artificial intelligence.

Indexed as

Cataract ExtractionArtificial IntelligenceCataractForecastingHumansOphthalmology

Identifiers

PMID40082703
PMCPMC12089510

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