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When reviewing your handoff communication process, dont just focus on the handoff between clinical areas such as the operating room and the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU).
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Following several recent adverse events, a special advisory panel is being brought together again in New York to recommend more ways to improve safety and outcomes in office-based surgery.
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We can predict much in life now. The health care industry has diagnostic tools to detect many forms of cancer, heart disease, and other life-threatening illnesses. Meteorologists can chart a mass of low pressure off the coast of Africa and reasonably predict when it will strike Florida.
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The key to having a performance improvement (PI) study that will demonstrate your commitment to an accreditation surveyor is to be certain the study is measurable and applicable to your program, as well as realistic, says Betty Bozutto, RN, MBA, CASC, executive director of Naugatuck Valley Surgical Center in Waterbury, CT.
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Want to impress your accreditation surveyor? Want to make sure you meet standards associated with performance improvement?
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When Hurricane Katrina struck Fairway Medical Center in Covington, LA, Kory Krista, director of plant operations, learned one lesson the hard way: Have wet vacs at designated areas in the facility connected to critical power to remove water.
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As Hurricane Katrina subsided in Covington, LA, Fairway Medical Center, a surgical specialty hospital, discovered it was without normal power, water, and sewer. There was no normal external communications through phones, including cellular phones, and there was limited radio and television.
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More than one-third of American medical students are not required to study medical ethics, according to survey results compiled by the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), the largest independent medical student organization in the country.
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A recently published study of the effects of managed care on delivery of health care and screenings to enrollees found that it appears to improve care across the board. Particularly heartening are indications that the disparity in care given to white enrollees vs. black enrollees was narrowed sharply.
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When a frail elderly patient is treated for a serious, chronic illness such as cancer, death is naturally assumed to be a possible outcome. But death is not so easy to accept in young patients, as any health care professional who has had pediatric patients die knows.