Publications

Audit reports: AMD treatment

• The First Report of Age-related Macular Degeneration Audit (AMD) for patients starting treatment for neovascular AMD in the 2020 NHS year: 01 April 2020 to 31 March 2021 was published on 10 February 2023. The NOD AMD Audit Full Annual Report 2023 together with the NOD AMD Audit Patient Summary 2023 / Patient Summary Word version are available for download.

Audit reports: Cataract surgery

• Key Findings and Annual Report on cataract surgery performed in England, Wales and Guernsey (01 April 2021 to 31 March 2022)
• Key Findings and Annual Report on cataract surgery performed in England, Wales and Guernsey (01 April 2020 to 31 March 2021)
• Feasibility Study of Post-cataract Posterior Capsule Opacification report May 2021 
• Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) Feasibility Study Report February 2020
• Key Findings and Annual Report Cataract surgery performed in England, Wales and Guernsey (01 September 2018 to 31 August 2019
• Key Findings and Annual Report on cataract surgery performed in England, Wales and Guernsey (01 September 2017 to 31 August 2018). Full Report 
• Key Findings and Annual Report on cataract surgery performed in England and Wales (01 September 2016 to 31 August 2017)
• Key Findings and Annual Report on cataract surgery performed in England, and Wales (01 September 2015 to 31 August 2016
• Executive Summary and First Annual Report Piloting of the National Ophthalmology Database Audit Methodology

Peer Review Publications

Cataract surgery

1. Buchan, J.C., Norridge, C.F.E., Barnes, B. et al. The Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ National ophthalmology database study of cataract surgery: Report 14, cohort analysis – the impact of CapsuleGuard® utilisation on cataract surgery posterior capsule rupture rates. Eye (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-024-03003-6
2. Buchan, J.C., Norridge, C.F.E., Low, L. et al. The Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ National Ophthalmology Database Study of Cataract Surgery: Report 13, monitoring post-cataract surgery endophthalmitis rates—the rule of X. Eye (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-023-02917-x
3. Stewart, S., Gruszka-Goh, M.H., Neo, Y.N. et al. The Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ National Ophthalmology Database Study of Cataract Surgery. Report 12: Risk factors for suprachoroidal haemorrhage during cataract surgery. Eye 37, 1778–1787 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-023-02514-y
4. Liying Low, Vishal Shah, Charlotte FE. Norridge, Paul HJ. Donachie, John C. Buchan. RCOphth NOD, Report 10: Risk factors for post-cataract surgery endophthalmitis,Ophthalmology, 2023, ISSN 0161-6420.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ophtha.2023.07.021
5. Donachie PHJ, Barnes BL, Olaitan M, Sparrow J and Buchan JC. The Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ National Ophthalmology Database study of cataract surgery: Report 9, Risk factors for posterior capsule opacification. Eye (Lond). 2022 Aug 24
6. Day AC, Norridge CFE, Donachie PHJ, et al. Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ National Ophthalmology Database study of cataract surgery. Report 8: cohort analysis of the relationship between intraoperative complications of cataract surgery and axial length. BMJ Open 2022;12:e053560. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053560
7. Hughes R, Aristodemou P, Sparrow JM, Kaye S, Surgeon effects on cataract refractive outcomes are minimal compared with patient comorbidity and gender: an analysis of 490 987 cases,Br J Ophthalmol Epub  2021 nov 11
8. Buchan JC, Donachie PHJ, Cassels-Brown A, Liu C, Pyott A, Yip JLY, Zarei-Ghanavati M, Sparrow JM. The Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ National Ophthalmology Database Study of cataract surgery. Report 7: Immediate Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery in the UK: Current practice and patient selection. Eye (Lond). 2020 Jan 7
9. Ferris JD, Donachie PH, Johnston RL, Barnes B, Olaitan M and Sparrow JM. Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ National Ophthalmology Database study of cataract surgery: report 6. The impact of EyeSi virtual reality training on complications rates of cataract surgery performed by first and second year trainees. Br J Ophthalmol. 2020 Mar;104(3):324-329. Epub 2019 May 29.
10. Theodoropoulou S, Grzeda MT, Donachie PHJ, Johnston RL, Sparrow JM and Tole DM. The Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ National Ophthalmology Database Study of cataract surgery. Report 5: Clinical outcome and risk factors for posterior capsule rupture and visual acuity loss following cataract surgery in patients aged 90 years and older. Eye (Lond). 2019 Jul;33(7):1161-1170. Epub 2019 Mar 11.
11. Johnston RL, Day AC, Donachie PHJ and Sparrow JM. The Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ National Ophthalmology Database study of cataract surgery: report 4, equity of access to cataract surgery. Eye (Lond). 2020 Mar;34(3):530-536. Epub 2019 Jul 29.
12. Day AC, Donachie PHJ, Sparrow JM, Johnston RL,  Kingdom National Ophthalmology Database Study of Cataract Surgery: report 3: Pseudophakic Retinal Detachment, Ophthalmology. 2016 Aug;123(8):1711-1715
13. Day AC, Donachie PH, Sparrow JM and Johnston RL. The Royal College of Ophthalmologists' National Ophthalmology Database study of cataract surgery: report 2, relationships of axial length with ocular copathology, preoperative visual acuity, and posterior capsule rupture. Eye (Lond). 2015 Dec 29(12): 1528-1537. doi:10.1038/eye.2015.198. Epub 2015 Oct 23.
14. Day AC, Donachie PH, Sparrow JM, Johnston RL. The Royal College of Ophthalmologists' National Ophthalmology Database study of cataract surgery: report 1, visual outcomes and complications. Eye (Lond). 2015 Apr;29(4):552-60. doi: 10.1038/eye.2015.3. Epub 2015 Feb 13.  

Retinal Surgery

1. Sallam A, Donachie PHJ, Yorston D, Steel DH, Williamson T, Jackson T, Sparrow J and Johnston R. Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ National Database Study of Vitreoretinal Surgery: Report 7, Intersurgeon Variations in Primary Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment Failure. Retina. 2018 Feb;38(2):334-342. 
2. Jackson TL, Johnston RL, Donachie PHJ, Williamson TH, Sparrow JM and Steel DHW. The Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ National Ophthalmology Database Study of Vitreoretinal Surgery: Report 6, Diabetic Vitrectomy. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2016;134(1):79-85. 
3. Sallam AAB, Donachie PHJ, Williamson TH, Sparrow JM and Johnston RL. The Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ National Ophthalmology Database Study of vitreoretinal surgery: report 5, anaesthetic techniques. British Journal of Ophthalmology 2016 Feb;100(2):246-52.  Epub 2015 Jul 3.   
4. Jackson TL, Donachie PH, Williamson TH, Sparrow JM, Johnston RL. The Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ National Ophthalmology Database Study of Vitreoretinal Surgery: Report 4, Epiretinal Membrane. Retina. 2015 Mar 31. 
5. Jackson TL, Donachie PH, Sallam A, Sparrow JM, Johnston RL. United Kingdom National Ophthalmology Database study of vitreoretinal surgery: report 3, retinal detachment. Ophthalmology. 2014 Mar;121(3):643-8. Epub 2013 Aug 23.  Jackson TL, Donachie PH, Sparrow JM, Johnston RL. United Kingdom National Ophthalmology Database Study of Vitreoretinal Surgery: report 1; case mix, complications, and cataract. Eye (Lond). 2013 May;27(5):644-51.2013.12. Epub 2013 Mar 1. Jackson TL, Donachie PH, Sparrow JM, Johnston RL. United Kingdom National Ophthalmology Database study of vitreoretinal surgery: report 2, macular hole. Ophthalmology. 2013 Mar;120(3):629-34. Epub 2012 Dec 1.

Diabetic Retinopathy

1. Keenan TD, Johnston RL, Donachie PH, Sparrow JM, Stratton IM, Scanlon P. United Kingdom National Ophthalmology Database Study: Diabetic Retinopathy; Report 1: prevalence of centre - involving diabetic macular oedema and other grades of maculopathy and retinopathy in hospital eye services. Eye (Lond). 2013 Dec;27(12):1397-404. 2013.196. Epub 2013 Sep 20.  

Glaucoma

1. Kelly SR, Khawaja AP, Bryan SR, Azuara-Blanco A, Sparrow JM, Crabb DP. Progression from ocular hypertension to visual field loss in the English hospital eye service. Br J Ophthalmol. 2020 Mar 25. pii: bjophthalmol-2019-315052.  PMID: 32217541. / 
2. Kelly SR, Khawaja AP, Bryan SR, Sparrow JM, Crabb DP Auditing service delivery in glaucoma clinics using visual field records: a feasibility study. BMJ Open Ophthalmology 2019;4:e000352.