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Postoperative Delirium in Older Adults
The elderly operative patient has very different and specific needs compared to a younger woman. In addition to a higher risk of medical comorbidities, elderly women are affected by cognitive impairment, depression, gait, and balance disturbances.
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NIPT and Invasive Procedures
A single prenatal testing center with a large volume of patients has experienced a dramatic drop in the rate of chorionic villus sampling and amniocentesis after the introduction of noninvasive prenatal testing.
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Hormonal Contraception and Glioma: Is There Reason for Concern?
A large case-control study using the Danish National database found a slight increase in the risk of glioma in ever-users of hormonal contraception, which increased with duration of use. Users of progestin-only methods were at higher risk. However, these findings should not influence clinical practice or perception of contraceptive safety.
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Finding New Clinical Activity in Endometrial Cancer from Optimizing Molecular Pathways
Everolimus, combined with letrozole, produced unexpected clinical activity in a cohort of previously treated recurrent endometrial cancer patients.
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ASCA: New quality measures are likely
The Measure Applications Partnership has issued a draft recommendation supporting two additional measures in the Ambulatory Surgery Center Quality Reporting Program. The Partnership guides the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on performance measures.
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CMS addresses lower relative humidity in ORs
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has provided information on operating room (OR) relative humidity (RH) for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and supplemental information for hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) using the categorical waiver of Life Safety Code (LSC) Anesthetizing Location RH Requirements.
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FDA says to inform patients about risk of endoscopy linked to CRE infections
ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography), an upper endoscopy procedure performed on some half a million U.S. patients annually, poses a risk of transmission of practically untreatable carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE).
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Smaller outpatient facilities struggle to achieve regulatory compliance with HIPAA
An outpatient surgery facility gives a research organization a patient’s protected health information (PHI) for recruitment, but it didn’t have the patient’s authorization or a signed waiver of authorization approved by the Institutional Review Board or privacy board.
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Freestanding EDs and urgent care centers as new sources of surgical referrals
One question I’m frequently asked is how to increase referrals to surgeons in the hospital or freestanding ambulatory surgery center (ASC) arenas.
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Serratia outbreak linked to drug diversion
A former nurse at the University of Wisconsin (UW) Hospital and Clinics in Madison, who allegedly diverted pain medication for personal use, might be linked to a cluster of infections among patients in the units where she worked, UW officials say.