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American Health Consultants now offers the Hospital Handbook on Smallpox Vaccination, a facilitywide resource containing all the information you need about smallpox vaccination in most heath care facilities and environments.
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Sixty percent of participants in a second study on diagnostic colonoscopy, who also had participated in the first study, saw a significant decrease in some aspect of their procedure times.
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Evaluating your same-day surgery space as you sit or crawl around the floor doesnt sound practical or necessary, and it is definitely not dignified, but it is essential when youre designing space to be used for pediatric patients.
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The recently announced national smallpox vaccination plan will have a significant impact on your same-day surgery program, whether you work in a hospital, surgery center, or office setting.
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Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) has a significant impact on the patient and health care provider. While routine prophylaxis to prevent PONV may seem desirable, wide variations in efficacy and costs of treatment suggest that routine use is not warranted.
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The number of blind or visually impaired people in the United States is expected to double in 30 years, to 6.8 million, as the baby boomer generation ages, according to Vision Problems in the U.S., a report issued by the National Eye Institute in Bethesda, MD.
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Although the approach differs from surveyor to surveyor, same-day surgery programs that recently have undergone accreditation surveys notice that surveyors are more interactive with staff and less reliant on policies.
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Death or injury is 10 times more likely to occur in a doctors office than at outpatient clinics, according to a just-published review of surgeries performed in U.S. doctors offices.
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Beginning Oct. 16, providers, with a few exceptions, are required to submit all Medicare claims electronically. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has distributed guidance on how to comply with transactions and code sets for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published proposed payment rates for hospital outpatient services, effective Jan. 1, 2004, and new rates for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), effective Oct. 1, 2003.