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Table 1 Employee’s survey (n = 8) to subjectively experienced causes of disruptions in a decreasing order of frequency

From: Asymmetry in patient-related information disrupts pre-anesthetic patient briefing

Frequently named disruptive factors

Incomplete medical results or records

Lack of patient history

Long waiting time for patients caused by uncoordinated patient flow

Uninformed patient about own surgery

No regular surgical contact for requests

No visual aids for anesthesia

Time consuming IT system*

  1. *IT information technology.