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Its not an urban legend or an Internet rumor. A Canadian woman really did walk through a metal detector at an airport and trigger the alarm, which led to the discovery that a 33 cm surgical retractor had been left in her abdomen after a procedure.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations still requires you to mark the surgical site for some surgeries, but you wont have to mark all surgeries as originally required under National Patient Safety Goal No. 4.
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Ambulatory programs accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations soon will be required to perform at least one failure mode effect and analysis (FMEA) per year.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could not come to a conclusion on the cause of an outbreak at Allegheny General Hospital in Pennsylvania in which patients may have been exposed to pseudomonas bacteria through improperly sterilized bronchoscopes.
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Question: Who are my business associates, and what needs to be included in a business associate agreement?
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The National Quality Forum has approved four additional safe practices that should be used universally in applicable health care settings to reduce the risk of harm. These four include three that affect the outpatient surgical area.
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In this second part of a two-part series on addictions, we discuss the characteristics of drug-impaired employees and give you resources for helping them.
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You have to replace four out of 14 nonclinical patient care coordinators. Because youre in a crunch, you just place your standard ad in the paper and choose the best four people who apply and who can start immediately. Not any more.
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A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine reported a disturbing finding: In one-third of the cases of retained equipment that were studied, surgical teams failed to count equipment before and after the operations.