Background and Objectives: Surgical cancelation is a significant source of time and resource waste, patient safety risk, and stress for patients and their families. In this study, a risk management-based approach is developed to prioritize factors contributing to surgical cancellation. Methods: Factors leading to surgical cancellation were comprehensively classified based on literature review...

background and objectives: surgical cancelation is a significant source of time and resource waste, patientsafety risk, and stress for patients and their families. in this study, a risk management-based approach is developed to prioritize factors contributing to surgical cancellation. methods: factors leading to surgical cancellation were comprehensively classified based on literature review.a...

BACKGROUND Unexpected surgical cancellation is common and can have significant adverse effects. Cancellation rates vary because of a lack of a standard definition, different patient populations and study methodology. We hypothesized that case cancellation has a different pattern in a dedicated ambulatory surgical center compared to a general operating room (OR) setting in a large academic cente...

OBJECTIVE To identify the frequency and reasons of operations cancellation in 25 Makkah region hospitals in Saudi Arabia. METHODS Retrospective evaluation of the rate of surgery cancellation in 25 hospitals of Makkah region was performed in this study. The data of scheduled surgeries from 15 different surgical specialties was collected from January to December 2013. Frequency and reasons of c...

BACKGROUND Cancellation of surgery close to scheduled time causes a waste of healthcare resources. The current study analyzes surgery cancellations occurring after the patient has been prepared for the operating room, in order to see whether improvements in the surgery planning process may reduce the number of cancellations. METHODS In a retrospective chart review of operating room surgery ca...

.. Objective: To find out reasons for cancellation of operation on the day of surgery in the Surgical Department of Civil Hospital Karachi. Design: Observational study. Setting & Period: All operation theatre bookings of the Civil Hospital Surgical Department from July 2010 to October 2010 have been studied by using the ‘daily operating theatre lists’. Frequency of cancellation, type of surgeri...

BACKGROUND Cancellation of operations in hospitals is a significant problem with far reaching consequences. This study was planned to evaluate reasons for cancellation of elective surgical operation on the day of surgery in Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad. METHODS From July 2006 to June 2007 the medical records of all the patients who had their operations cancelled on the day of surgery in...