Association of rural or urban status, region, and institution type with cataract surgery wait times in Ontario, Canada
Though WTs were comparable between institution type, urban, and rural settings, northern LHINs experienced higher WTs than southern LHINs. More data-driven studies are needed to inform health care policies aimed at addressing access to cataract surgery.
Authors
- Matthew B. Schlenker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1192-5992)
- H. Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7848-6720)
- Mike Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5937-0717)
- Casey Chu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-3939)
- Mack Hurst
- Marko M. Popovic (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0370-5968)
- Laura C. Rosella (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4867-869X)
- Nishaant Bhambra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4966-6578)
- Sherif El-Defrawy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7678-9947)
- Lori Diemert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5999-8248)
- Iqbal Ike K. Ahmed (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5600-7242)
Institutions
- University of Ottawa (CA)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (CA)
- Trillium Health Centre (CA)
- Prism Eye Institute (CA)
- Doheny Eye Institute (US)
- Kensington Health (CA)
- Public Health Ontario (CA)
- Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (CA)
- North Toronto Eye Care (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology
- Published
- 2025-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcjo.2025.08.004
- Primary Topic
- Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00