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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmology. 2017 Apr 21;124(8):1126–1135. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2017.03.034

Table 3.

Incidence of intraoperative complications, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, 2013–June 2015, %

Complication ISBCS and DSBCS: average between the two eyes
DSBCS: 1st eye vs 2nd eye
ISBCS
N=5,247		 DSBCS
N=19,368		 P value 1st eye N=19,368 2nd eye N=19,368 P value
Posterior capsular rupture 0.84 0.67 0.23 0.66 0.67 0.94
Vitrectomy 0.42 0.45 0.82 0.48 0.42 0.42
Either of the above 0.93 0.88 0.79 0.91 0.85 0.61

Posterior capsular rupture and vitrectomy were obtained from natural language processing of operative reports.

Incidence of intraoperative complications, %

Abbreviations: ISBCS same-day bilateral cataract surgery; DSBCS different-day bilateral cataract surgery