“…Of the remaining 30 studies, 15 full-text articles were excluded [ [23] , [24] , [25] , [26] , [27] , [28] , [29] , [30] , [31] , [32] , [33] , [34] , [35] , [36] , [37] ]; the reasons for exclusion are listed in Appendix: Table A3. Fifteen studies met the inclusion criteria for qualitative synthesis, of which 12 studies were included for the meta-analysis of surgery cancellations and patient experience [ 12 , 16 , [38] , [39] , [40] , [41] , [42] , [43] , [44] , [45] , [46] , [47] , [48] , [49] , [50] ]. The included studies encompassed 31,496 patients and were conducted in six different countries: Australia [ 42 , 50 ], Canada [ 38 ], Hong Kong [ 48 ], Ireland [ 46 ], Spain [ 16 ], and the United States [ 12 , [39] , [40] , [41] , [43] , [44] , [45] , 47 , 49 ].…”