Why the study?
What are the reasons for surgery cancellation in a general hospital?
What are the reasons for surgery cancellation in a general hospital?
Surgery cancellations in a general hospital are driven by patient, surgery, and schedule-related factors, highlighting the need for systematic monitoring to prevent them.
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May guide monitoring of modifiable cancellation factors in hospitals; leaves open efficacy of interventions in prospective trials.
: This study found that there are related various causes to cancel operations, including patient characteristics, surgery related characteristics and surgery schedule related characteristics and it means that it would be possible for some reasons to be prevented. Every medical institution should consider the operation cancellation as an important issue and systematic monitoring should be needed.
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Cho et al. (2018) studied this question.
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