Supporting Information

Supporting Information</p

Characteristics of patients hospitalized with eye injury diagnoses over a 10-year period (1stJanuary 2001–31stDecember 2010).

<p>ICD-10-AM Code = International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision.</p><p>SD ^a: Standard Deviation.</p><p>IOFB ^b = Intraocular Foreign Body.</p

Frequency of types of eye injuries by age and gender.

<p>The majority of injuries (56.2%) occurring in males were distributed in the 15–44 age groups; the most frequent injury cause were related to work (70.0%), violence (16.3%), and road traffic (6.2%). The majority of injuries (36.0%) occurring in females were distributed in the 0–14 age group; the most frequent injury cause were related to the home (72.1%), violence (9.6%), and sports (3.8%).</p

Correlation of the final visual acuity category with the Ocular Trauma Score in 3219 eyes.

<p>(Spearman’s correlation coefficient = 0.655, <i>P</i><0.001).</p

Causative agents of the most frequent injury categories by gender.

<p>Causative agents of the most frequent injury categories by gender.</p

A comparison of final visual acuity and presenting visual acuity.

<p>(Spearman’s correlation coefficient = 0.659, <i>P</i><0.001).</p><p>425^a: includes the patients who were too young to receive the visual acuity examination and those with presenting symptoms that were too serious to apply to the visual acuity examination.</p><p>392^b: includes the patients who were too young to receive the visual acuity examination, those transferred to another health care facility, receiving home health care, not adhering to medical advice or with missing/unrecorded data, and death.</p

Non-surgical and surgical management reports from initial presentation to final follow up in eye injury cases.

<p>Non-surgical and surgical management reports from initial presentation to final follow up in eye injury cases.</p

Diagnoses of major pediatric eye injuries by age and gender.

a<p>Percentages are over total 100.0% because one participant might have more than one type of injury according to the primary and/or secondary diagnosis.</p>b<p>Includes a foreign body on the external eye, injury to the optic nerve and pathways, injury to the oculomotor, trochlear, or abducens nerve, and conjunctival injuries.</p

Final visual acuity compared with presenting visual acuity.

a<p>Includes the patients too young to receive the visual acuity examination and those with presenting symptoms too serious to apply to the visual acuity examination.</p>b<p>Includes the patients too young to receive the visual acuity examination, those transferred to another health care facility or receiving home health care, and those with missing/unrecorded final visual acuity due to loss of follow-up (55 children).</p>c<p>Final visual acuity (FVA) is the presented visual acuity of patients at last follow up in the outpatient department of one of the 3 tertiary hospitals, (Spearman's correlation coefficient ρ = 0.659, <i>P</i><0.001 ).</p

Nonsurgical and surgical management reports from presentation to final follow up in eye injury cases by gender.

<p>Nonsurgical and surgical management reports from presentation to final follow up in eye injury cases by gender.</p