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7272 patients scheduled for elective surgical procedures in a 500-bedded Government hospital
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Day-of-surgery cancellations signal operational inefficiencies; hypothesis-generating for targeted interventions, should not yet change practice.
A significant proportion of elective surgeries are cancelled on the day of surgery, primarily due to preventable administrative reasons like lack of theater time.
Kumar et al. (2012) studied this question.
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