Armbrecht 2000	Prospective cohort study comprised of (1) patients with AMD who did not have surgery (2) patients with AMD who underwent cataract surgery, and (3) a control group of patients who underwent cataract surgery.
Armbrecht 2003	Prospective cohort study comprised of (1) patients with AMD scheduled to have cataract surgery and (2) a control group of patients with AMD not having cataract surgery.
Brunner 2001	RCT with two arms: Group 1 = Immediate cataract operation (only one eye per patient); Group 2 = Control group with 6-month presurgical observation and postsurgical observation 1 week after operation (likewise only one eye per patient). This study was excluded since the timing of cataract surgery was not the intervention of interest for this review.
Javitt 2000	Case series of patients undergoing cataract surgery.
Lamoureux 2007	RCT with two arms: “early surgery” versus “standard surgery” for patients with AMD scheduled for cataract surgery. This study was excluded since the timing of cataract surgery was not the intervention of interest for this review.
Lundström 2002	Prospective cohort study of patients undergoing cataract surgery, with and without AMD.
Pollack 1996	Observational study of eyes with AMD that had cataract surgery, compared to fellow eyes that did not have surgery.
Pollack 1998	Observational study of patients with AMD after cataract surgery in 1st eye, then 2nd eye.
Prajna 1998	Study was not limited to patients with AMD.

AMD: age-related macular degeneration

RCT: randomized clinical trial