To study the viability of manual small incision cataract surgery for effective rehabilitation of cataract patients in community eye care settings. A randomised controlled clinical trial; to compare manual small incision cataract surgery (MSICS) with conventional extracapsular cataract surgery (ECCE- PCIOL) with respect to safety, cost-effectiveness, surgical time and patient satisfaction and visual function. In a masked randomised controlled clinical trial, 741 patients with operable cataract were randomly assigned to receive one of the two treatment groups. 706 of the 741 patients...
To study the viability of manual small incision cataract surgery for effective rehabilitation of cataract patients in community eye care settings. A...