A National Registry-Based Epidemiological Study to Evaluate 395 646 Patients Hospitalized Due to Eye Diseases in Poland in 2019

04 February 2023: Database Analysis

Agnieszka Kamińska ^1ABCDEF* , Jarosław Pinkas ^2DE , Paweł Goryński ^3BE , Mateusz Jankowski ^2ACE

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.939351

Med Sci Monit 2023; 29:e939351

Table 5 Epidemiological characteristics of 254 788 hospital admissions due to cataract in Poland, January–December 2019.

Variable	Hospital admissions due to cataract
	Age-related nuclear cataract*n=197 896		Complicated cataract**n=56 892
	n	%	n	%

Male	71 713	36.2	20 875	36.7
Female	126 183	63.8	36 017	63.3

0–17	0	0.0	29	0.1
18–29	0	0.0	88	0.2
30–39	19	0.0	210	0.4
40–49	1180	0.6	682	1.2
50–59	6585	3.3	2478	4.4
60–69	48 792	24.7	13 591	23.9
70–79	84 237	42.6	23 639	41.6
80+	57 083	28.8	16 175	28.4

Rural	58 658	29.6	15 349	27.0
Urban	139 238	70.4	41 543	73.0

Yes	56 536	28.6	35 132	61.8
No	141 360	71.4	21 760	38.2

Emergency	9288	4.7	2040	3.6
Scheduled	188 608	95.3	54 852	96.4

	171 409	86.6	45 280	79.6
1 day	16 800	8.5	7523	13.2
2 days	7551	3.8	2910	5.1
3 days or more	2136	1.1	1179	2.1

1	197 814	99.9	56 863	99.9
2 or more	82	0.1	29	0.1

Ophthalmology	179 792	90.9	54 208	95.3
One-day Surgery Department	10 680	5.4	1752	3.1
Emergency Department	1388	0.8	70	0.1
Other wards	6036	2.9	862	1.5

Completion of the therapeutic or diagnostic process	57 665	29.1	12 471	21.9
Referral for further treatment in the outpatient clinic	140 231	70.9	44 421	78.1