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An outpatient diagnostic index was used to analyse data relating to a sample of new patients attending the Southampton Eye Hospital in 1979 and 1986. Our main findings are an increased demand for cataract surgery by an increasingly aged population and a trend towards operating on cataracts at an earlier stage in their development. These and other results are discussed.
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Batterbury, M., Khaw, P., Hands, R. et al. The cataract explosion: The changing pattern of diagnoses of patients attending an ophthalmic outpatient department. Eye 5, 369–372 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1991.59
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