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Renunciations in forefoot surgery. Critical analysis of surgical waiting lists
S Llanos1, M Galán-Olleros1, E Manrique1
1Unidad de Pie y Tobillo. Servicio de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, España.
Introduction:
The high prevalence of forefoot pathology generates long surgical waiting lists (SWL). We have detected a considerable number of patients who withdraw surgery, which creates an important distortion in our activity and high expenditure of resources. Our objective is to study the factors related to these resignations, as well as, compare them with other pathologies of high prevalence and ambulatory surgical treatment: carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and internal meniscopathy (IM).
Material And Methods:
Retrospective study of the surgical cancellations on 2,399 patients included in the SWL of the Foot and Ankle Unit of our center for forefoot surgery, between January/2014 and March/2018, both included.
Results:
We have found 389 renunciations, which represent 16.22% of the inclusions in SWL, with 84.83% of women. The pathologies with the highest rate of resignation have been Morton metatarsalgia (24%) and hallux rigidus (20.16%). The most frequent pathology, hallux valgus, records 15.96% of resignations that occur mostly between 6 and 9 months. In the CTS and IM, the resignation rate has been 17.42 and 8.92%, respectively, with higher resignation rates in the first 3 months.
Conclusions:
The withdrawal of a scheduled intervention on the forefoot registers a high frequency in our environment, which can be related to factors such as the type of pathology, its natural history, response to orthopedic interventions, time in LEQ, and other non-specific ones on which we must investigate, to rationalize and establish duties in our SWL.
