{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,13]],"date-time":"2026-03-13T13:51:20Z","timestamp":1773409880015,"version":"3.50.1"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Project MUSE","issue":"1","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["hpu"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2013,2]]},"abstract":"<jats:p xml:lang=\"en\"> Background . Ophthalmic surgical intervention is a critical component of therapeutic eye care services. Periodic audit of its output and outcome is needed to monitor service effectiveness and inform evidence-based eye health care reforms, in the spirit of VISION 2020-The Right to Sight. Objectives. To investigate the pattern and results of ophthalmic surgical interventions at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu, Nigeria. Methods . The UNTH's eye theatre surgical logbook and patients' clinical charts were retrospectively reviewed, from August 2003-July 2008, to obtain patients' relevant demographic and clinical data. Personnel data were obtained from UNTH's human resources department. Descriptive and analytical statistics were performed. A p&lt;.01 was considered statistically significant. Results . Of the 881 eye operations on 676 patients, cataract extraction (45.1%), pterygium excision (18.4%) and trabeculectomy (7.5%) were the main surgeries performed. The yearly surgical output per surgeon was 23.2. The early outcome was satisfactory for trabeculectomy but sub-optimal for cataract surgery. Surgeries were performed mainly to restore or preserve vision (p&lt;.01). Conclusions . The output and outcome of eye operations at UNTH, Enugu, are sub-optimal. Overcoming surgical uptake barriers, improved pre-operative evaluation, and provisions of micro-surgical consumables are instructive.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1353\/hpu.2013.0013","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,2,3]],"date-time":"2013-02-03T09:00:36Z","timestamp":1359882036000},"page":"197-205","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Audit of Ophthalmic Surgical Interventions in a Resource-deficient Tertiary Eye Care Facility in Sub-Saharan Africa"],"prefix":"10.1353","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Boniface Ikenna","family":"Eze","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"147","container-title":["Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","deposited":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,21]],"date-time":"2024-01-21T14:11:22Z","timestamp":1705846282000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/496943"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2013,2]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2013,2]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/hpu.2013.0013","relation":{},"ISSN":["1548-6869"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1548-6869","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2013,2]]}}}