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A recent report on medication errors by U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) has pinpointed perioperative services as an editor highly at risk for medication errors when compared with the rest of the hospital, and outpatient surgery programs are particularly at risk, say sources interviewed by Same-Day Surgery.
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Outpatient surgery providers are seeing increasing numbers of children who are overweight and obese, and these children have a greater likelihood of experiencing problems associated with surgery, according to a recent study conducted by the University of Michigan Health System.
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Many outpatient surgery managers are prepared, at least to some extent, to respond to a disaster in their communities, but what do you do when your facility is the disaster?
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The investigative arm of Congress reported that The Joint Commission and its not-for-profit educational and consulting affiliate, Joint Commission Resources (JCR), have made progress in the past several years to prevent improper sharing of facility-specific information, though continued monitoring is warranted.
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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.