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Pick up any newspaper or magazine or turn on the news and you're likely to hear somebody talking about this country's obesity epidemic.
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If you assume that your workforce has better than average health statistics due to programs for nutrition, fitness, and smoking cessation, you may be sadly mistaken. On the other hand, you may have far fewer obese employees than the national average.
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(In this second of a two-part series on innovative care and pricing plans being used for outpatient surgery, we tell you how a facility offers a guarantee involving complications and billing insurance. In last month's issue, we told you how Geisinger Health System in Danville, PA, has used a checklist of best practices to save money, plus implemented a price guarantee for members of its health plan.)
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Surgeons who are burned out or depressed are more likely to say they had recently committed a major error on the job, according to the largest study to date on physician burnout.
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Be prepared, that old Boy Scout motto, is being applied with great success to operating room patients whose anatomy might make it difficult for physicians to help them breathe during surgery, Johns Hopkins researchers report in a new study.
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There are many accreditation standard changes by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) effective with this month's publication of the 2010 Accreditation Handbook for Ambulatory Health Care.
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Cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are increasing among outpatients and driving up costs; in fact, a just-released study indicates that the proportion of MRSA increased more than 90% among outpatients with staph over the course of the study.
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A first-of-its-kind consensus statement on diabetes surgery is published online in the Annals of Surgery.
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Last year was a very interesting year in politics and scandals, but not a good year for business. We sure put a lot of faith in 2010.
