Background Cancellation of planned surgery impacts substantially on patients and health
systems. This study describes the incidence and reasons for cancellation of inpatient …

Background The provision of safe and timely surgical care is essential to global health care.
Low-and middle-income countries have a disproportionate share of the global surgical …

Background Cancelation of same-day surgery is a common global problem, wasting
valuable hospitals' operating room (OR) times and imposing significant economic costs …

Hypertension is a major clinical challenge and public health problem. The number of
surgical cases with pre-existing hypertension is dramatically increased and the most …

3. The opportunity to risk-assess patients by quantitative scoring systems based on their
functional capacity (this may inform the primary team to make a decision as to the wisdom of …

For such a list, there will be a known start time, such as 08.30. Within the NHS it is not in fact
universally specified whether 08.30 refers to the time the first incision is made, or to the start …

Anaesthetic pre-operative assessment or review (PO-A) is vital to ensure safe surgery. Much
of PO-A used to take place the night before surgery or, less commonly, by special …

Cancellation of planned surgeries is a known problem in healthcare that harms patients and
wastes resources increasing healthcare cost. Decreasing the number of cancellations can …

Background: Myocardial injury affects up to one in three patients undergoing non-cardiac
surgery. However, very little is known about the underlying pathophysiology. In the general …

This study aims to explore how often the operating list is changed on the day of surgery and
the reasons why this may occur. The purpose was to analyse the wider potential impact that …