Ophthalmology

3 Statistics on Cataract Surgery Procedure Times in ASCs

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care has gathered information from 92 facilities performing a combined annual 170,000 cataract surgeries and released statistics on the procedure times.

Carrie Pallardy

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

The statistics report:
•   Median pre-procedure time was 81 minutes
•   Median procedure time was 14 minutes
•   Median discharge time was 21 minutes

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