AIM: To investigate the changes in constituent ratio and operation of the inpatients with ophthalmology from a key hospital in province.

METHODS: A retrospective analysis was conducted including the data of medical record first sheet of patients from January 1 2015 to December 31 2017 using the hospital medical statistical analysis system. All cases were classified by clinical specialties, and the surgery quantity was counted according to the first operation method. The database was established and analyzed with Excel 2007 and SPSS 17.0.

RESULTS: Total of 43 307 patients were research studied, including 21 063 males(48.64%)and 22 244 females(51.36%)with an average age of(55.0±20.4)years. The proportion of patients over 60 years old accounted for 49.92% of the total number, and this value tended to increase year by year while that decrease among patients aged 0 to 19 years. These included 31.49% of diseases of the lens, 20.61% of retino-choroidal diseases, 10.29% of glaucoma, 8.70% of strabism, 8.49% of ocular trauma, 7.44% of vitreous body disease, 6.51% of eyelid-conjunctiva and lacrimal apparatus disease, 2.69% of eye neoplasm, 1.06% of optic-nerve disease, 0.89% of sclera, corneal, iris or ciliary body disease, 1.82% of other eye disease. There was 89.40% of cases underwent an ophthalmic surgery(38 718 cases), 16 590 were operation on lens(42.85% of cases), 4 697 were intravitreal injection(12.13% of cases), 3 491 were strabismus surgery(9.02% of cases), 2 597 were glaucoma operation(6.66% of cases).

CONCLUSION: Lens disease, retino-choroid disease, glaucoma, strabismus and ocular trauma were constituted the top five diseases. At present, treatment of cataract is still the main work of prevention and treatment of blindness, while retino-choroid disease is increasing rapidly and becoming the focus of prevention and treatment.