title: Patient Experience With Office-Based Corneal Transplantation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate patient experience with office-based corneal transplantation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Five hundred sixty-seven consecutive patients had a corneal transplant in a stand-alone operation unit, ie, a unidirectional flow hood inside a dedicated treatment room in an office setting. Six months postoperatively, all patients received a questionnaire inquiring how they experienced corneal surgery and the operation unit; 354 patients responded to the questionnaire and their answers were scored on a scale of 1 to 5, with higher scores indicating greater satisfaction.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The average score to the question "How would you rate your experience of your corneal operation in general?" was 4.4 ± 0.62 (n = 354), and the average score to the question "How would you rate your experience within the operation unit, taking into consideration feelings of claustrophobia and how comfortable you felt?" was 4.1 ± 0.82 (n = 348). Patients who had undergone previous ocular surgery in a conventional operating theater scored their office-based corneal transplant no less favorably than those patients for whom it was their first operation (P = 0.9 and P = 0.77, respectively). Most subjective comments pertained to the surgical stretcher, rather than to the experience of office-based surgery in general or to the unidirectional flow hood in particular.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Regardless of the ophthalmic surgical history, patient experience with office-based corneal transplantation was generally positive.
authors.affiliation: *Netherlands Institute for Innovative Ocular Surgery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; †Melles Cornea Clinic Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; ‡Parker Cornea, Birmingham, AL; and §Amnitrans Eye Bank Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Jack
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krijgsman
authors.forename: Korine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: van Dijk
authors.forename: Gerrit R J
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Melles
mesh_terms: D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D003316:Corneal Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D016039:Corneal Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009873:Operating Rooms; D017060:Patient Satisfaction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires