| Autor: |
Paschoal ML; Hospital Universitário, Universidade de São Paulo. maluhabib@hu.usp.br, Gatto MA |
| Jazyk: |
portugalština |
| Zdroj: |
Revista latino-americana de enfermagem [Rev Lat Am Enfermagem] 2006 Jan-Feb; Vol. 14 (1), pp. 48-53. Date of Electronic Publication: 2006 Mar 08. |
| DOI: |
10.1590/s0104-11692006000100007 |
| Abstrakt: |
This study aimed to identify the rate of surgery cancellation and to verify the reasons for patients' absence from the planned surgery. The study was carried out at a secondary care university hospital in São Paulo city. Sixty patients whose surgeries were cancelled were interviewed during 3 months. Results showed that the rate of surgery cancellation was 19.91%, and that absenteeism was responsible for 54.30% of the 186 cancelled surgeries. Ten reasons for patient absenteeism were found; 53.33% were due to institutional problems, in most cases because patients were unaware of the date of surgery; 28.33% had clinical problems such as upper airway infection and other diseases; social conditions were responsible for 10.00%, related to economic and family problems; and 8.33% were cancelled by the patient. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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