Journal:
:international journal of health studies
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2 hassan hashemi 1 1. noor research center for ophthalmic epidemiology, noor eye hospital, tehran, iran.
2. noor ophthalmology research center, noor eye hospital, tehran, iran.
mohammad miraftab 1
fatemeh alipour 3 3. farabi eye hospital, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
farhad rezvan 1
abbasali yekta 4 4. dept. of optometry, school of paramedical sciences, mashhad university of medical sciences, mashhad, iran.
mehdi khabazkhoob 5* 5. dept. of medical surgical nursing, school of nursing and midwifery, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
background: to determine the prevalence of outpatient and hospitalization for cataract surgery in iran. methods: a random cluster sampling was done in a cross-sectional study on cataract surgeries performed in treatment centers of ophthalmology in iran between 2000 and 2005. one week of each season was selected randomly and all cataract surgery files of the center were studied. this study repor...