Table 1

Reported cases of death while waiting for cardiac surgery in the Netherlands

	1994	1995	Total
Reported cases of death	138	129	267
Excluded^1-150	22	21	43
Remaining deaths	116	108	224
Waiting list unrelated death	26	17	43
Waiting list related death^†	90	91	181

↵1-150 Erroneously reported; ^†Death was considered waiting list related if the patient would not have died at that time if there had been unrestricted operating capacity.