Cataract is a clouding of the normally transparent lens. It is most common in the elderly, hence the name „senile cataract“ as is the most common cause of reversible vision loss worldwide and it is assumed that the number of blind people, due to cataract, will increase to 50 milion by 2020. At the Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Sveti duh, Faculty of Medicine „Josip Juraj Strossmayer“ a quantitative cross-sectional study (July and August 2015 ) was conducted on the subject „Patient satisfaction with the one day cataract surgery“. The hipothesis of the study was that the patients are satisfied with the one day cataract surgery. OBJECTIVES: The aim was to determine the dergree of patient satisfaction with the one day cataract surgery and detect crtical points that could serve as a basis for the future improvements. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS: The study included 149 patients. The data in this study was collected by an anonymous questionnaire. The Questionnaire was used to analyze the levels of patient satisfaction and to determine to what exent is their satisfaction affected by the organization of work at the Universitiy hospital, accommodation on an outpatient basis, the information obtained by doctors and nurses, the surgery and being discharged from the hospital two hours after surgery under local anesthesia. RESULTS: Statistical analysis of the obtained dana showed that the majority of patients, 87,2% of them, are satisfied with the cataract surgery, 8,1% are partially satisfied and the minimum number of patients, only two of them, are somewhat dissatisfied with the operation. There is no patient who is unhappy with the cataract surgery. CONSLUSIONS: Studies have shown that hospitalization is an expecially traumatic and stessful experience, which is greatly reduces with the introduction of the daily hospital care.