Cataract patient-voice layer

Last curated: 2026-08-31

Method

This layer synthesizes public patient-information pages, public advocacy/service organizations, and PubMed-indexed qualitative or patient-reported studies retrieved live on 2026-08-31. It asks what people report about functional loss, waiting, decision-making, surgery, recovery and residual symptoms. It does not treat a single story as prevalence evidence.

Ethics

• Public sources only.
• Experiences are paraphrased and aggregated; no private individual is named or profiled.
• No quote longer than 15 words is retained.
• Organization material is separated from independent qualitative research because advocacy and service providers have institutional perspectives.
• Absence from this source set is not interpreted as absence of an experience.

Coverage boundary

The retrieved qualitative literature is geographically thin and English-language web sources dominate. The layer therefore reports recurring themes with source pairs and explicitly avoids population-frequency claims.

Files

• organizations.md — fetched public organizations and access dates.
• themes.md — aggregate themes, each supported by at least two sources.
• sources.md — annotated source inventory and coverage limits.