| Autor: |
González-Arévalo A; Department of Anaesthesia, Hospital Universitario Fundación Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain. agonzalez@ fhalcorcon.es, Gómez-Arnau JI, delaCruz FJ, Marzal JM, Ramírez S, Corral EM, García-del-Valle S |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Anaesthesia [Anaesthesia] 2009 May; Vol. 64 (5), pp. 487-93. |
| DOI: |
10.1111/j.1365-2044.2008.05852.x |
| Abstrakt: |
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. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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