Same-Day Surgery – October 1, 2004
October 1, 2004
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Survey draws attention to outpatient surgery errors: Is your program at risk?
A 7-year-old goes in for routine ear surgery and dies after receiving a dose of concentrated epinephrine. Surely this is an isolated case or is it? A recent survey of safety errors in otorhinolaryngology practice shows that of 466 responses, there were five cases of inadvertent injection or placement of 1:1,000 epinephrine. -
Follow these safety tips to avoid surgical errors
Outpatient surgery providers who want to improve their safety record should follow these six tips, based on a list of suggestions published by authors of a study on safety errors in otorhinolaryngology. -
Share with competition? It may be advantageous
While outpatient surgery providers often are fierce competitors, some providers are finding multiple advantages in sharing equipment, supplies, and even names of potential employees with each other. Here are some of the strategies that have paid off for same-day surgery providers. -
FTC/DOJ: Competition is good for health care
A recent federal report offers what some sources say is the most significant development in years in the ongoing battle over certificate of need (CON) and in what some same-day surgery providers consider to be an unlevel playing field in health care. The report contends state CON laws are an anticompetitive barrier to entering the health care marketplace. -
Same-Day Surgery Manager
How to keep your surgery program alive and well. It always seems as if there are obstacles that get in our way when we try to do our job. Below are some interesting roadblocks that your peers are facing. You are not alone out there! -
Pain management ASC aids convenience, income
Setting up an ambulatory surgery center is a complicated process in the best of circumstances, but when your same-day surgery center is a single-specialty center that handles pain management procedures, there are challenges not faced by other same-day surgery managers, says experts interviewed by Same-Day Surgery. -
SDS Accreditation Update: Collaboration promotes patient safety as a team effort
With the focus on patient safety in the general media, it would be natural for a provider to promote its own patient safety statistics and efforts to set itself apart from competitors in the marketplace. That is not the case in Madison, WI, where hospitals and medical groups work together to address patient safety issues. -
SDS Accreditation Update: Opening soon? Do you need an early survey?
The construction is complete; you have your occupancy certificate; and youre ready to start taking patients. Unfortunately, you have no payer contracts and no license, and you cant obtain any until youre accredited. What are your options? -
SDS Accreditation Update: Joint Commission releases look-alike/sound-alike list
Same-day surgery programs and office-based surgery programs must choose at least 10 of the look-alike and sound-alike drug names to place on their watch list of medications that can be easily confused to meet the 2005 national patient safety goal that focuses upon reducing medication errors. -
Patient Safety Alert supplement