The Ophthalmology Workload during the Lebanese Crisis and Pandemic.

Purpose: The purpose is to to explore the effects of the Lebanese economic crisis on the ophthalmology workload in Lebanon, and the concomitant influence of the COVID-19-related lockdown and Beirut port explosion.

Methods: Data pertaining to all the clinic visits to the Ophthalmology Department at the American University of Beirut Medical Center between January 01, 2019, and December 31, 2021, were extracted. Completed visits to different subspecialties were used to analyze the different parameters.

A comparison of the workload between pediatric and adult ophthalmology encounters.

Purpose: To explore the differences in workload between pediatric and adult ophthalmology encounters in the private clinics of an academic medical center.

Methods: Complete encounters from four different subspecialties were analysed: pediatric ophthalmology, pediatric ophthalmology/neuroophthalmology, anterior segment, and retina. Five parameters were studied: time waiting for assistant, time with assistant, time waiting for physician, time with physician, and total visit time.