Table 4.

Scheduling issues.

Rate of event		Canada, n (%)	Australia and New Zealand, n (%)	Europe, n (%)	Total, n (%)
Occasionally operations are moved earlier from their slated time. In your hospital is this…
	Frequent	115 (18)	26 (15)	21 (21)	162 (17)
	Occasional	414 (63)	107 (60)	107 (44)	565 (61)
	Rare	124 (19)	45 (25)	34 (34)	203 (22)
Have such changes in operative time been observed to cause problems?
	Frequently	27 (4)	11 (6)	11 (12)	44 (5)
	Occasionally	254 (41)	47 (48)	31 (33)	363 (41)
	Rarely	347 (56)	47 (46)	53 (56)	477 (54)