Consequently, the objectives, expectations and outcomes of this elective seemed to be better comparable with the framework of undergraduate North South electives.
The "elective" group included 22,921 individuals not meeting the high-risk criteria, but for whom BART was ordered as an elective test to be run only if no deleterious mutation was detected by BRCA1/2 sequencing and the LRP.
South Australia is in the grip of its worst flu season on record, forcing elective surgery to be cancelled as hospital admissions soar.
At the planning level, we are interested in determining a plan that specifies the set of elective cases to be performed in each period over the planning horizon.
However, we did not expect these elective admissions to be common soon after incident heart failure, myocardial infarction, or major infection such as pneumonia.
An elective surgery had to be postponed as the patient had undergone percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) 3 days earlier, which was not communicated to the surgeon beforehand.
Moreover, the benefits of delaying elective CS need to be balanced against the risks.
If the remaining 2-week slots are scheduled for next week, no elective slots have to be canceled this week.
Consequently, local quality improvement initiatives concerned with the timing of elective CS need to be considered within this wider context.
