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The National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed 13 clinician-level consensus standards related to perioperative care and four facility-level measures in surgery and anesthesia.
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You know you need to enforce infection control practices such as proper equipment sterilization.
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Most hospitals in Scotland are going to be banned from contracting out cleaning and catering services to private firms as part of a new drive toward cutting the spread of deadly superbugs.
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Many outpatient surgery providers throw away their markers after designating the surgical site. But could you save money and help the environment by reusing them? One recent study points to that possibility, at least for one brand of markers.
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The final Medicare outpatient payment rule includes a 3.6% annual inflation update for hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs).
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Question: Please explain the difference between pushing patients out the door versus letting them become lounge lizards that seemingly have no place to go after their surgery.
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In recent years, large outbreaks of hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infections have occurred among patients in private medical practices, pain clinics, endoscopy clinics, and a hematology/oncology practice.
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Six years ago, The New England Journal of Medicine reported1,2 Moseley's study of the use of arthroscopy to treat knee osteoarthritis (OA).
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Some time in the next 18 months or so, four different sets of auditors could be scrutinizing the medical records at your hospital. It's all part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Medicare Integrity Program initiative, mandated by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which seeks to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicare claims.
