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Purpose The primary objectives of this historical case-control study were to evaluate the incidence of and reasons and risk factors for adult unanticipated admissions in three tertiary care Canadian hospitals following ambulatory surgery. Methods A random sample of 200 patients requiring admission (cases) and 200 patients not requiring admission (controls) was taken from 20,657 ambulatory...