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- Title
The advantage of low concentration of PVI in cataract surgery.
- Authors
Grzybowski, Andrzej
- Abstract
Rationalizing medicine through verification of different practice patterns as well as the identification and elimination of unnecessary procedures is of increasing importance worldwide. The Choosing Wisely Campaign named in ophthalmology preoperative medical tests for eye surgery unless there are specific medical indications, the use of topical antibiotics in intravitreal injections and employment of topical antibiotics in adenovirus conjunctivitis as non‐beneficial and disadvised. The problem is not trivial as the impact of unnecessary tests and procedures in the U.S. was estimated be as high as 30% of all health care spending. Moreover, rationing and waste avoidance are complementary, and elimination of wasteful, non‐beneficial interventions was proposed to be ethically mandated. Cataract surgery is the most common surgical procedure worldwide, thus verification of different practice patterns related to this procedure is very justified.
- Subjects
CATARACT surgery; MEDICAL care costs; OPHTHALMIC surgery; CLINICAL indications; OPERATIVE surgery
- Publication
Acta Ophthalmologica (1755375X), 2019, Vol 97, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1755-375X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1755-3768.2019.8092