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Practice patterns of Canadian Ophthalmological Society members in cataract surgery--2010 survey
Lindsay Ong-Tone1, Ali Bell, Yin Yin Tan
1Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region, Regina, Sask., Canada. longtone@accesscomm.ca
Objective:
To establish the cataract surgery practice patterns of the members of the Canadian Ophthalmological Society (COS).
Study Design:
Web-based questionnaire.
Methods:
In January 2010, an email with a link to SurveyMonkey was sent from the COS office to its 305 members who had indicated their practice focus is cataract surgery. A reminder email was sent 2 weeks later. All responses were collected anonymously.
Results:
There was a 32.5% response rate (99 responses), compared with 20.7% in 2009. Two respondents volunteered that they no longer performed cataract surgery and 1 response was incomplete; therefore, 96 responses were analyzed. The results of the 2010 survey were compared to those of the 2009 survey.
Conclusions:
While the majority of the practice patterns analyzed were unchanged between the 2009 and 2010 surveys, there appears to be a trend to start nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug eye drops earlier preoperatively and an increase in the use of one-piece hydrophobic acrylic, aspheric, and blue-blocking intraocular lenses. The use of the fourth generation fluoroquinolone antibiotic gatifloxacin has increased at the expense of older antibiotics.