Causes for Cancellation of Elective Surgical Procedures in a Spanish General Hospital

Overview

Journal Anaesthesia

Specialty Anesthesiology

Date 2009 May 6

PMID 19413817

Citations 24

Authors

A Gonzalez-Arevalo

J I Gomez-Arnau

F J delaCruz

J M Marzal

S Ramirez

E M Corral

S Garcia-del-Valle

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Abstract

Cancellation of scheduled surgery is undesirable for patients and an inefficient use of resources. We prospectively collected data for 52 consecutive months in a public general hospital to estimate the prevalence and causes. The overall cancellation rate was 6.5% (2559 of 39 115 scheduled operations). Cancellation by broad category was for 'medical reasons' in 50%, 'patient-related factors' in 23%, and due to 'administrative/logistic problems' in 25%. The commonest specific causes within these categories were respectively: infections/fever (18%), patient did not attend (20%) and lack of theatre time (23%). This data will help direct resources to target prevention of cancellations as a result of these main problems.

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