Improving patient care and enhancing surgical efficiency: strategies to reduce same‐day surgical cancellations.

This article discusses strategies to reduce same-day surgical cancellations, which can lead to harm for patients and inefficiencies in healthcare delivery. The study focuses on a successful intervention implemented at an academic surgery center, which involved automating pre-operative risk stratification and improving pre-operative communication with patients. The authors found a significant decline in same-day cancellations following the intervention, resulting in cost savings for the healthcare system. While the study has limitations and may not be applicable to all settings, it provides valuable insights for other hospital systems to explore solutions for reducing same-day surgical cancellations. [Extracted from the article]