LV Prasad Eye Institute EyeSmart electronic medical record-based analytics of big data: LEAD-Uveitis Report 1: Demographics and clinical features of uveitis in a multi-tier hospital based network in Southern India

• Published in: Indian journal of ophthalmology Vol. 70; no. 4; pp. 1260 - 1267
• Main Authors: Tyagi, Mudit, Das, Anthony, Kaza, Hrishikesh, Basu, Soumyava, Pappuru, Rajeev, Pathengay, Avinash, Murthy, Somasheila, Agrawal, Hitesh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: India Wolters Kluwer India Pvt. Ltd 01.04.2022; Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd; Medknow Publications & Media Pvt. Ltd; Wolters Kluwer - Medknow; Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
• Subjects: Adult; Age groups; Big data; Causes of; Cross-Sectional Studies; Demography; Electronic Health Records; Electronic medical records; Electronic records; Epidemiology; Etiology; Female; Hospitals; Humans; India - epidemiology; Male; Medical informatics; Medical records; Methods; Middle Aged; Ophthalmology; Patients; Retrospective Studies; Special Focus, Uvea, Original; Statistics; Toxoplasmosis; Tuberculosis; Uveitis; Uveitis - diagnosis; Uveitis - epidemiology; Uveitis, Anterior; Young Adult; India; epidemiology; Big data; electronic medical records; uveitis; tuberculosis
• DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1122_21
• ISSN: 0301-4738

Purpose: To describe the demographics and epidemiology of uveitis presenting to a multi-tier ophthalmology hospital network in Southern India. Methods: Cross-sectional hospital-based study of 19,352 patients with uveitis presenting between March 2012 and August 2018. Results: In total, 1,734,272 new patients were seen across the secondary and tertiary centers of our multi-tier ophthalmology hospital network during the study period. Among them, 25,353 eyes of 19,352 patients were diagnosed with uveitis and were included in the study. Uveitis constituted 1.11% of all cases. The majority of patients were male (60.33%) and had unilateral (68.09%) affliction. The most common age group was 21-50 years with 12,204 (63.06%) patients. The most common type of uveitis was anterior uveitis, which was seen in 7380 (38.14%) patients, followed by posterior uveitis in 5397 (23.89%) patients. Among the infectious causes, tuberculosis was the most common etiology (2551 patients, 13%) followed by toxoplasmosis (1147 patients, 6%). Conclusion: Uveitis constituted 1.11% of all cases presenting to our clinics. It was more common in the age group of 21-50 and was predominantly unilateral. Anterior uveitis was the most common subtype seen in 38%.