Small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) refractive surgery: Our initial experience

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101enrolled patients*

202enrolled eyes*

1structured arms

90maximum standardized days follow-up

* Descriptive sum of reported arm counts. “≥” indicates that one or more arm counts were not reported; missing values are not treated as zero.

Study arm

SMILE Armed Forces cohort

SMILE

Population

Patients: 101
Eyes: 202
Bilateral treatment: Yes
Age range: Not reported
Sphere range: Not reported
Cylinder range: Not reported
Spherical equivalent: Not reported
Corneal thickness: Not reported

Eligibility definition

Inclusion
Patients undergoing SMILE at a tertiary Armed Forces hospital from January through December 2019.

Exclusion
Not structured

Reported outcomes by follow-up

Outcome	Follow-up	Follow-up sample	Result	Reported fraction	Provenance
Mean uncorrected distance visual acuity efficacy	1 day	202 eyes	0.038 logMAR	denominator: 202 eyes	VERIFIED Source · Abstract — Results
Mean uncorrected distance visual acuity efficacy	1 week	202 eyes	0.015 logMAR	denominator: 202 eyes	VERIFIED Source · Abstract — Results
Mean uncorrected distance visual acuity efficacy	1 month	202 eyes	0.006 logMAR	denominator: 202 eyes	VERIFIED Source · Abstract — Results
Mean uncorrected distance visual acuity efficacy	3 months	202 eyes	0.030 logMAR	denominator: 202 eyes	VERIFIED Source · Abstract — Results

Complications

No structured complication observations are available for this arm. This means “not reported in this dataset,” not zero complications.

Study design

Retrospective data review of a tertiary Armed Forces hospital cohort

Country: India
Publication-reported places: Command Hospital (Eastern Command) · Army Hospital (Research & Referral) · Command Hospital (Air Force)
Multicenter: No
Prospective: No
Randomized: No
Source type: RETROSPECTIVE
Regulator: Not reported

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Limitations and notes

The indexed record does not identify which affiliated hospital treated the cohort, so institution names are searchable but no town is assigned to the treatment site.

Missing fields are not interpreted as negative findings. Arm counts may not be additive in all study designs.

Study evidence level
A simple, non-GRADE hierarchy based on design: randomized and large regulatory trials are high; prospective cohorts moderate; retrospective observational studies low. Manual review can override this label.