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Surgical Events, Product or Device Events, Patient Protection Events, Care Management Events, Environmental Events, and Criminal Events.
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Answers to your questions about job responsibility. Licensure requirements, room turnover, locker room space, and post-op phone call issues are addressed.
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The Harrisburg-based Pennsylvania Department of Health has announced a move that has gotten the attention of ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) nationwide: Surgery centers in that state no longer can perform some laparoscopic procedures, such as laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
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Same-day surgery managers who want to see how their compliance with the national patient safety goals from the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations compares to compliance of all organizations that have undergone surveys can check out the results on the Joint Commission web site.
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Three white papers on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements on risk analysis and employer issues related to security implementation are available from the Reston, VA-based Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI).
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Cosmetic surgeons need to screen and educate patients carefully due to lifestyle factors that can make cosmetic surgery risky and less effective for some patients, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) in New York City.
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While surveyors continue to focus upon National Patient Safety Goals and use the tracer methodology as they conduct surveys for the Joint Commission, not all surveyors trace a single patient throughout the process.
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Your facility experiences a rare adverse event. The wrong patient had surgery, or surgery was performed on the wrong body part. Things couldnt get worse . . . or could they? You receive a financial blow when you find out the insurance company wont pay the facility fee for the case.
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In these days of negative headlines about research and the pharmaceutical industry, its essential that clinical trials offices, IRBs, and research institutions join together to improve public education and trust about how research is conducted and the benefits it brings to society, several experts say.
