Authors
DJN Wong, SK Harris, SR Moonesinghe, S Ramani Moonesinghe, Danny JN Wong, Steve K Harris, James Bedford, Oliver Boney, Maria Chazapis, Sharon Drake, Laura Farmer, David Gilhooly, James Goodwin, Jose Lourtie, Duncan Wagstaff, Mike Grocott, Robert Sneyd, Anna Batchelor, Stephen Brett, Catherine Plowright, Suman Shrestha, Richard Shawyer, Shafi Ahmed, Mizan Khondoker, Mike Nathanson, Paul Cripps, Anaesthetic Audit, Research Matrix of Yorkshire, North West Research, Audit Group, Oxford Critical Care Anaesthetic Research Enterprise, Pan-London Peri-operative Audit, Research Network, Scottish East Quality Improvement, Research Academy, SESSA Quality Improvement, Research Network, Severn Trainees Anaesthetic Research, South West Anaesthetic Research Matrix, South Yorkshire Hospitals Audit, Southcoast Peri-operative Audit, Welsh Anaesthetic Audit Research, Shilpa Rawat, Sonia Sathe, Alison Campbell, Janakan Anandarajah, Nicola Ball, Lalindra Bandara, Dennis Barnes, Catherine Chapman, Lynda Connor, Amanda Cook, Amanda Ebejer, Samantha Evans, Maire Gallagher, Sarah Goff, Irina Halfacree, Rachel Harford, Catherine Harris, Rebecca Jackson, Kathryn James, Claire Jones, Sharon Jones, Kathy Malinovszky, Serah Mungai, Hari Nageswaran, Anand Perumal, Harriet Pudge, Leanne Quinn, Thomas Sheppard, Trudy Smith, James Spargo, Sharon Storton, Caradog Thomas, Charlotte Thomas, Samuel Tyrrell, Owen Vale, Catrin Williams, Marie Williams, Tom Williams, Lewys Winfield-Young, Helen Worrell, Dermot Moloney, Chandini Chuni, Jasna Comara, Brian Conway, Zara Eagle, Greg Foster, Chris Platt, Alison Thorne, Wendy Lum Hee, Lisa Armstrong, Albert Brennan, Justine Burns, Chantal Busby, Mechele Couch-Upite, Emma Dooks, Sally Dunlop, Anya Eijk, Ramana Govindaraju, Tamsin Gregory, Alka Grover, Brigid Hairsine, Sarah Hennell, Philippa Hill, Thomas Hollins, Julian Hood, Lisa Horner, Helen Hothersall, Rachel Ingham, Richard Jackson, Amy Kitching, Claire Kurasz, Sarah Munsie, Ildiko Nemeth, Carole Paley, Prabhakaran Premraj, Sue Redhead, John Scriven, Alison Shaw, Liz Shenton, Hemantha Shiva, Josie Snell, Lucy Sootheran, Josephine Stewart, Frank Swinton, Claire Totten, Liz Varghese, Sarah Vest, Ben Wetherell, Vincent Hamlyn, James Tozer, Timothy Alce, Poonam Bopanna, Kevin Draper, Lucy Emmett, Phillippa Falkner, Ellie Fisher, Cat Griffiths, Una Gunter, Rebecca Harris, Saima Hashmi, Helen Jewitt, Sonal Lodhi, Angie Organ, Elana Owen, Frances Taylor, Maria Tritean, Richard Wassall, Jade Woolley
Publication date
2018/10/1
Journal
British journal of anaesthesia
Volume
121
Issue
4
Pages
730-738
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Background
Cancellation of planned surgery impacts substantially on patients and health systems. This study describes the incidence and reasons for cancellation of inpatient surgery in the UK NHS.
Methods
We conducted a prospective observational cohort study over 7 consecutive days in March 2017 in 245 NHS hospitals. Occurrences and reasons for previous surgical cancellations were recorded. Using multilevel logistic regression, we identified patient- and hospital-level factors associated with cancellation due to inadequate bed capacity.
Results
We analysed data from 14 936 patients undergoing planned surgery. A total of 1499 patients (10.0%) reported previous cancellation for the same procedure; contemporaneous hospital census data indicated that 13.9% patients attending inpatient operations were cancelled on the day of surgery. Non-clinical reasons, predominantly inadequate bed capacity, accounted …
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