PURPOSE: To determine the socio-economic characteristics of the patients who were submitted to cataract surgery in a university hospital, to evaluate the accessibility to the tertiary health service and to determine the waiting time for cataract surgery. METHODS: A cross-sectional study of medical charts from 148 random patients who underwent cataract surgery during the first semester of 2007. RESULTS: The patients in this study had median of age of 70.5 years, and the major prevalence was of female (60.1%), caucasian […]