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Table 1 Total day of surgery cancellation per specialty distribution of booked cases

From: Incidence and root causes of surgery cancellations at an academic medical center in Iran: a retrospective cohort study on 29,978 elective surgical cases

Specialty

Number of scheduled cases(n)

percentage of scheduled cases

Number of cancelled cases (n)

Ratio of cancelled/scheduled

In each field (%)

Urology

6827

22.8

558

8.17

Pediatric surgery

7509

25.04

525

6.99

General surgery

3506

11.7

203

5.79

Vascular surgery

3349

11.17

182

5.43

Neurosurgery

2864

9.5

138

4.81

Thoracic surgery

1640

5.4

112

6.82

Plastic surgery

1165

3.9

80

6.86

Orthopedics

1734

5.8

66

3.80

Gynecological surgery

1275

4.2

10

0.78

Minor surgery

109

0.36

21

19.26

Total

29,978

100%

1895

6.32