Factors which influence the cardiac surgeon's decision not to operate on patients referred for consideration of surgery

Table 1 Number of patients and rate of turndown by procedure

	Number of patients referred	Number of patients turned down	Turndown Rate
Isolated CABG	238	32	13.5%
Isolated Valve	82	12	14.6%
CABG+Valve	34	3	8.8%
Other	28	2	7.1%
Total	382	49	12.8%

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