Immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery versus delayed sequential bilateral cataract surgery: potential hospital cost savings

OBJECTIVE: Cataract surgery represents a substantial cost to health care systems around the world. Canada's socialized medical system allows an opportunity to accurately track costing because of the institutional record keeping necessary for public reporting to provincial governments. Cataract surgical costs consist of medical costs, hospital costs, and social costs. Our study compared the hospital costs of immediately sequential bilateral …