TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluating the impact of strabismus surgery on the association of musculoskeletal injuries, fractures, and falls with disorders of binocular vision in medicare beneficiaries
AU - Pineles, Stacy L.
AU - Repka, Michael X.
AU - Yu, Fei
AU - Lum, Flora
AU - Coleman, Anne L.
N1 - Funding Information:
Financial support: NIH/NEI K23EY021762 (SLP), Research to Prevent Blindness (SLP, MXR), H. Dunbar Hoskins Jr, MD Center for Quality Eye Care, Foundation of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. The sponsors and funding organizations had no role in the design or conduct of this research.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
PY - 2017/6
Y1 - 2017/6
N2 - Disorders of binocular vision that are increasingly prevalent among aged, fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries are associated with fractures, falls, and musculoskeletal injuries. We evaluate whether strabismus surgery influences the association of injuries in elderly patients with disorders of binocular vision in a 5% random sample of Medicare fee-for-service claims data from 2010 to 2013. There were 22,237 Medicare beneficiaries with a claim that included a diagnosis of a disorder of binocular vision. Of these, the majority had strabismus (49.5%); amblyopia (9.14%), diplopia (53.5%), and nystagmus (2.72%) were also represented. There were 530 patients who underwent strabismus surgery. The unadjusted odds ratio for the association between undergoing strabismus surgery and any of the three musculoskeletal injuries defined above was 0.868 (95% CI, 0.725-1.040; P = 0.13), and the adjusted odds ratio was 1.004 (95% CI, 0.833-1.210; P = 0.97). This study did not reveal a difference in the subsequent risk of musculoskeletal injuries, fractures, or falls in Medicare beneficiaries who underwent surgery. The failure to find an association could represent a true lack of correlation, selection bias, study design using administrative claims data, or a very small effect.
AB - Disorders of binocular vision that are increasingly prevalent among aged, fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries are associated with fractures, falls, and musculoskeletal injuries. We evaluate whether strabismus surgery influences the association of injuries in elderly patients with disorders of binocular vision in a 5% random sample of Medicare fee-for-service claims data from 2010 to 2013. There were 22,237 Medicare beneficiaries with a claim that included a diagnosis of a disorder of binocular vision. Of these, the majority had strabismus (49.5%); amblyopia (9.14%), diplopia (53.5%), and nystagmus (2.72%) were also represented. There were 530 patients who underwent strabismus surgery. The unadjusted odds ratio for the association between undergoing strabismus surgery and any of the three musculoskeletal injuries defined above was 0.868 (95% CI, 0.725-1.040; P = 0.13), and the adjusted odds ratio was 1.004 (95% CI, 0.833-1.210; P = 0.97). This study did not reveal a difference in the subsequent risk of musculoskeletal injuries, fractures, or falls in Medicare beneficiaries who underwent surgery. The failure to find an association could represent a true lack of correlation, selection bias, study design using administrative claims data, or a very small effect.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jaapos.2016.11.023
DO - 10.1016/j.jaapos.2016.11.023
M3 - Article
C2 - 28161340
AN - SCOPUS:85015332910
SN - 1091-8531
VL - 21
SP - 239-241.e3
JO - Journal of AAPOS
JF - Journal of AAPOS
IS - 3
ER -