ArticleBMC ophthalmology2025
Predictors of time to recovery from cataract surgery among cataract patients at Menelik II Comprehensive Specialized Hospital: a retrospective follow up study.
Article in BMC ophthalmology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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.
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.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Determinants of reoperation following cataract surgery: a real-world analysis from a large tertiary training eye hospital in Iran.International ophthalmology · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundCataracts are the leading cause of reversible blindness globally, disproportionately affecting populations in low- and middle-income countries. In Ethiopia, cataracts remain a significant public health concern. Despite the effectiveness of cataract surgery in restoring vision, information on recovery time and its predictors remain limited. The aim of this study was to assess time to recovery and its predictors among patients undergoing cataract.
methodsA retrospective cohort study was conducted on 459 cataract patients who underwent surgery between January 1 and December 31, 2023. Data were randomly extracted from their medical records between June 1 and August 15, 2024. The Kaplan-Meier method was used to estimate the survival probabilities and compare groups, with significant differences tested using the log-rank test. The Weibull regression with the inverse Gaussian frailty was applied following a goodness-of-fit test to identify predictors of time to recovery. Results are presented as adjusted hazard ratios (AHRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). All statistical tests were declared significant at P-value < 0.05.
resultswe reviewed 459 patient cards, and 368 (80.17%, 95% CI: 76.26-83.58%) had recovered from a cataract surgery over 7,919.28 person-weeks. The overall incidence rate of recovery was at 46.47 per 1,000 persons per week (95% CI: 41.95-51.47). The median recovery time was at 18.14 weeks (IQR: 12.29-24, 95% CI: 17.14-18.86). Age over 60 years (AHR = 0.25, 95% CI: 0.07-0.96), urban residence (AHR = 1.77, 95% CI: 1.15-2.70), preoperative visual acuity (medium: AHR = 1.98, 95% CI: 1.23-3.18; high: AHR = 5.83, 95% CI: 1.72-19.77), comorbidities (ocular: AHR = 0.30, 95% CI: 0.15-0.61; systemic: AHR = 0.41, 95% CI: 0.22-0.75), type of surgery (phacoemulsification: AHR = 1.98, 95% CI: 1.06-3.67; intracapsular cataract extraction: AHR = 0.14, 95% CI: 0.03-0.89), and complications (intraoperative: AHR = 0.29, 95% CI: 0.12-0.71; postoperative: AHR = 0.17, 95% CI: 0.06-0.47), and surgeries performed by an ophthalmologist (AHR = 3.44, 95% CI: 1.80-6.55) were statistically significant predictors of time to recovery from cataract surgery.
conclusionThe median recovery time was shorter than in previous local studies but longer than in developed countries. Improved preoperative assessment, better comorbidity management, and minimizing complications may contribute to better recovery outcomes. The use of phacoemulsification and procedures performed by experienced ophthalmologists were associated with shorter recovery times, but further prospective studies are needed to confirm these findings. Personalized care approaches are recommended to optimize postoperative recovery.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.