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What did the doctor say? Improving health literacy to protect patient safety is a free white paper offered by The Joint Commission that explores the use of medical terms in communications with patients and the challenges that this use creates for patients.
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The unwieldy name of Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations no longer exists. As of January 2007, the accreditation association's name was changed to The Joint Commission.
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A well-managed and carefully-monitored patient satisfaction improvement project is one reason that staff members at The Urologic Surgical Center in Lancaster, PA, received good marks and positive comments from their surveyor in January 2007.
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A decrease in the perceived risk of wrong-site surgery and an improvement in collaboration among members of the operating room team improved significantly following the introduction of a standardized operating room briefing for all surgical procedures performed at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore.
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In President Bush' proposed budget, the inflation increase for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) has been decreased by 0.065 percentage points starting in 2010 for surgery centers and 2008 for HOPDs.
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When two outpatient surgery departments faced disaster in the past year, they learned just how important it is to participate in disaster drills and to come together as a team when a crisis hits.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has agreed to allow astigmatism- correcting lenses as an option for Medicare beneficiaries, according to the Federated Ambulatory Surgery Association (FASA).
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The American Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (AAASC) has developed a list of ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) by states and by congressional districts.
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The Minnesota Department of Health has released its third annual report, Adverse Health Events in Minnesota. The report, containing events from a 12-month period starting October 2005, showed 154 total adverse events.
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Surgeons who are skilled at video games also are more skilled at laparoscopic surgery, according to a just-released study published in the February issue of Archives of Surgery.