Session Title: Cataract II
Session Date/Time: Saturday 16/02/2013 | 08:30-11:00
Paper Time: 10:45
Venue: Hall 1
First Author: : S.Patel UK
Co Author(s): : M. Rau
Purpose:
To determine the significance of patient gender on the overall satisfaction scores after uneventful cataract surgery aimed at providing clear vision at distance and near with multifocal IOLs (MFIOLs).
Setting:
Augenclinic Cham, Germany.
Methods:
Patients were asked to fill out a standard routine satisfaction survey after unremarkable cataract surgery scoring their overall experience as either: 1. Very satisfied, 2. Satisfied or 3. Not satisfied with their overall quality of vision. The patients were fitted with the following MFIOLs: i) Array (Abbott), ii) MF4 (Zeiss), iii) Tecnis (AMO) or iv) ReZoom (Abbott). Non-parametric tests (Kruskal-Wallis and Friedman) were used to determine significance of any apparent differences in the distribution of overall satisfaction scores based on gender alone.
Results:
i) 94% of females (n=36), 86% of males (n=44) scored 1 or 2 ( p=0.04),
ii) 100% of females (n=18), 90% of males (n=22) scored 1 or 2 ( p=0.001),
iii) 100% of females (n=21), 74% of males (n=19) scored 1 or 2 ( p=0.005),
iv) 82% of females (n=29), 96% of males (n=52) scored 1 or 2 ( p=0.382).
Conclusions:
In general, a significantly higher proportion of females compared with males tended to score satisfied or very satisfied for Array, MF4 & Tecnis MFIOLs. The distribution of scores was not significantly gender biased for ReZoom MFIOL. Overall, the vast majority of patients rated their experience as satisfied or better.
Financial Disclosure:
None
