Summary of patient characteristics
| All | Grade 1: highly urgent | Grade 2: urgent | Grade 3: semiurgent | Grade 4: non-urgent | |
| Patients (n) | 1109 | 241 | 269 | 402 | 197 |
| Bilateral IVI | 147 | ||||
| Recapture date | 30 April 2020 | 30 March 2020 | 6 April 2020 | 27 April 2020 | 30 April 2020 |
| Recapture time (days) | 46 | 15 | 22 | 43 | 46 |
| Age (mean) | 77.47 | 77.35 | 77.37 | 77.40 | 77.30 |
| NA – total (mean age), n (%) | 29 (86.00) | 8 (92.00) | 5 (86.00) | 11 (86.00) | 5 (77.00) |
| NA – outside Austria, n (%) | 10 (87.50) | 4 (89.00) | 3 (83.00) | 1 (92.00) | 2 (74.00) |
| NA – poor general health, admitted to hospital or recent surgery, n (%) | 9 (89.00) | 2 (93.50) | 0 (0.00) | 5 (86.00) | 2 (84.50) |
| NA – treatment received elsewhere (private practice or hospital eye service), n (%) | 2 (67.50) | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | 2 (67.50) | 0 (0.00) |
| NA – under quarantine, n (%) | 5 (82.00) | 2 (87.00) | 1 (80.00) | 2 (85.00) | 0 (0.00) |
| NA – in retirement home, n (%) | 3 (94.00) | 0 (0.00) | 1 (86.00) | 1 (94.00) | 1 (95.00) |
| Treatment refusal for personal reasons, n (mean age) | 58 (82.43) | 13 (86.38) | 9 (82.00) | 23 (84.35) | 11 (74.91) |
| Proportion of patients refusing treatment per grading (%) | 5.2 | 5.4 | 3.3 | 5.7 | 5.6 |
IVI, intravitreal injection; NA, non-attendance.