Weinan Dong, Qingyu Zhang, Chunsheng Yan, Wanling Fu, Linlin Xu
Residents' satisfaction with primary medical and health services in Western China
BMC health services research
investigate trends prevalence distribution ocular trauma zimbabwean tertiary teaching hospital parirenyatwa hospitalbased retrospective crosssectional study conducted parirenyatwa group hospitals sekuru kaguvi eye department harare zimbabwe review medical records patients ocular trauma visiting treatment outpatient department january 2017 december 2021 information patients demographics presenting visual acuity type ocular trauma number eyes affected collected analysed using descriptive inferential statistics total 863 patients 1007 eyes identified experienced ocular trauma one kind another youth 1835 years reporting cases 331 384 712 patients classified openglobe injuries number 90 caused blunt trauma rest caused penetrating intraocular perforating injuries patients openglobe injuries 10 times likely develop blindness closedglobe injuries adjusting age gender statistically significant arr 965 95 ci 5531684 p 0001 prevalence distance vision impairment due ocular trauma 601 95 ci 568634 majority resulting blindness 220 95 ci 194249 high prevalence openglobe injuries zimbabwe blunt trauma significant cause suggests need promote intensify public eye health awareness sensitisation safety strategies prevention ocular trauma throughout country