This study aims to investigate the application and effect of a new daytime surgery and sameday discharge mode in cataract clinic. Methods: Two hundred patients with cataract intended to undertake daytime surgery from August 2019 to January 2020 in the Cataract department were enrolled for the study. Among them, 100 patients from January 2020 with the new daytime surgery and same-day discharge were the experimental group. While the other 100 patients without the designated set-up from August

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... worked as a control group. The length and cost of hospitalization, the length of waiting for the elevator, the patient satisfaction, and the awareness rate of health education were evaluated. Results: After application of the new daytime surgery and same-day discharge set-up, the patients' satisfaction rate increased from 91% to 95%, and the rate of awareness of health education increased from 87% to 90%, the difference was statistically significant (χ 2 =0.61, P=0.04 and χ 2 =0.22, P=0.01). The length of hospitalization, hospitalization costs and waiting time for elevators were much reduced than those without this set-up. Conclusions: The application of the cataract daytime surgery and same-day discharge set-up can effectively alleviate the overcrowding of the ward environment, reduce the workload of medical staff, and improve patient satisfaction. Therefore, the daytime surgery and same-day discharge set-up has wide clinical applications.