Pattern of vitreo-retinal diseases at the national referral hospital in Bhutan: a retrospective, hospital-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Knowing the pattern and presentation of the diseases is critical for management strategies. To inform eye-care policy we quantified the pattern of vitreo-retinal (VR) diseases presenting at the national referral hospital in Bhutan.

Methods

We reviewed all new patients over three years from the retinal clinic of the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital. Demographic data, presenting complaints and duration, treatment history, associated systemic diseases, diagnostic procedures performed, and final diagnoses were quantified. Comparisons of the expected and observed frequency of gender used Chi-squared tests. We applied a sampling with replacement based bootstrap analysis (10,000 cycles) to estimate the population means and the standard errors of the means

SUBMITTER: Rai BB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7017569 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature