Purpose To analyze cancellations of surgeries and identify evidence-based interventions to
address this issue. Design Integrative literature review. Methods An integrative literature …

Background Cancellation of operation on the intended day of surgery affects the efficiency of
Operation Room which incurs a significant financial loss for the patient, hospital, and health …

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 cancellation of elective surgeries is a major problem that increases wait
times, exacerbates costs and can negatively affect patients, both psychologically and …

Background: This study researched related causes that make scheduled surgeries canceled
not to be conducted and based on the research it is to derive issues in order to reduce …

Background Elective surgery cancellation is considered a fundamental problem in health
care services—it causes considerable disruption to patient flow, further eroding often …

The distributed operating room (OR) scheduling problem aims to find an assignment of
surgeries to ORs across collaborating hospitals that share their waiting lists and ORs. We …

Background: Cancelation of surgery is a constant agonizing dilemma for nearly all
healthcare services that has been intensively investigated to find out its roots …

General hospitals across the world are becoming larger (ie, admitting more patients each
year) and more complex (ie, offering a wider range of services to patients with more diverse …

Objective Avoidable case cancellations within 24 h reduce operating room (OR) efficiency,
add unnecessary costs, and may have physical and emotional consequences for patients …