Why the study?
Does anesthesia care affect the rate of systemic complications in Medicare beneficiaries undergoing cataract surgery?
Does anesthesia care affect the rate of systemic complications in Medicare beneficiaries undergoing cataract surgery?
Anesthesia care during cataract surgery is driven by ophthalmologist preference rather than patient characteristics, suggesting an opportunity for more selective use.
Supports selective anesthesia use in cataract surgery; leaves open causal effects on systemic complications in observational Medicare data.
The results of this cohort study suggest that systemic complications occurred less frequently after cataract surgery compared with other elective, low-risk, outpatient procedures during which anesthesia care was less commonly used. Anesthesia care was not associated with patient characteristics, such as older age or worse health status, but with the ophthalmologists' usual approach to cataract surgery sedation. The study findings suggest an opportunity to use anesthesia care more selectively in patients undergoing cataract surgery.
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