Background: Operating room (OR) is one of the main hospital parts and management of time and cost are very important in this essential unit. Also, due to the close relationship with other departments, improving its service quality and performance, significantly increases the efficiency of hospital. OR is a complex system in which each lack of coordination effects on all hospita...

OBJECTIVE To identify the suspension rate on elective surgeries and to investigate their occurrences, and their cancelling causes. METHODS This is an exploratory, descriptive and cross-sectional study with a quantitative and qualitative approach which was carried out at the Department of General Surgery in a medium complexity Hospital. All surgeries performed from January 2007 to July 2008 we...

Answer: Patients presenting for elective non-cardiac surgery requiring general anesthesia who test positive for cocaine but are asymptomatic and clinically nontoxic are at no greater risk for surgical complications than cocaine-free patients. Routine cancellation of surgery for these patients is unwarranted. Such patients need careful preoperative history and physical examination along with scr...

Objective: The numerous economic and social benefits associated with the practice of day care surgery could be eroded by frequent cancellations. We therefore determined the reasons for such cancellations in a tertiary care centre in Nigeria. Patients and Methods: This was a prospective study of all consecutive urologic day cases seen at Jos University Teaching hospital, Nigeria from January 200...

Much has been published about the impact of treatment on adverse outcomes in patients with cardiovascular diseases. Hypertension is an extremely common condition affecting a significant percentage of the world population. Although care guidelines exist for the medical patient with raised blood pressure, there are no accepted guidelines for the preoperative evaluation and perioperative care of t...

Abstract Background Elective surgery cancellation is considered a fundamental problem in health care services—it causes considerable disruption to patient flow, further eroding often already stretched operating capacity, and consequentially reduces both hospital performance satisfaction. This research presents systematic review (SR) of the reasons for among different hospitals countries. By hig...

Cardiothoracic surgery requires many expensive resources. This paper examines the balance between operating theatres and beds in a specialist facility providing elective heart and lung surgery. Without both operating theatre time and an Intensive Care bed a patient's surgery has to be postponed. While admissions can be managed, there are significant stochastic features, notably the cancellation...

Current surgical scheduling system has difficulties to handle unpredictable events or uncertainties. Source of uncertainties may come from the patient or the surgery itself, where several cases require immediate changes in data, such as when surgery delays or cancellation occurs on the same day. The study aimed to model the uncertainties for managing identified uncertainties during the continuo...