TABLE 3.

Cancellation of high-priority procedures according to method of booking surgery^*

	Proportion (95% CI)	Odds Ratio† (95% CI)
Wait list booking	88.6 (83.3, 93.8)	1.0
Pre-booking	74.3 (67.0, 81.5)	0.35 (0.18–0.68)

CI = confidence interval.

^*Presented as proportions of hospitals and corresponding odds ratios (with 95% CI) in which at least one elective procedure with high priority was cancelled after the final operating theatre schedule was created.

^†Adjusted for initial queue size at time of consultation, size of elective and urgent queues at registration on wait list, method of scheduling consultation and method of allocating theatre slots.