Self-reported postoperative visual function affected by multiple factors

No ocular comorbidity, younger age, female gender, short preoperative waiting time and significant improvement in vision correlated strongly with better self-reported visual function after cataract surgery, according to a study.Data were culled from the Swedish National Cataract Register on patient-reported visual function. The prospective, non-randomized, multicenter study included 10,364 patients who underwent cataract surgery and completed the Catquest-9SF questionnaire preoperatively and 3 months postoperatively.

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