“…Ensuring the patient is acquainted with the operative premises and performing preoperative MRI 1 day prior to surgery helps to improve patient compliance and relieves preoperative anticipation. Similar to our observations, Ghadiali et al [13] extensively evaluated the technical and rate limiting factors associated with delays in IOMRI. Implementing clinical practice improvement methodology, they observed an 85% improvement in the on-time start of neurosurgical procedures.…”