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    Cancellations of elective surgery may cause an inferior postoperative course: the 'invisible hand' of health-care prioritization?
    with L. Fellander-Tsai, M. G. Hansson, and L. Ryd
    Clinical Ethics 6 (1): 27-31. 2011.
    Elective surgery can be cancelled when resources are overwhelmed by emergency cases. We hypothesized that such cancellations, on psychological grounds, are followed also by inferior clinical results and we conducted a retrospective survey of patients following joint replacement surgery. Sixty patients having suffered from administrative cancellation prior to their operation during an 18-month period and with six months follow-up were identified and compared with another 60 matched patients after…Read more