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Although patients might need the strong pain relief that only opioids can provide, a Sentinel Event Alert issued by The Joint Commission urges healthcare providers to take specific steps to prevent serious complications or even deaths from opioid use.
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Results of a nationwide survey of hospital executives who make decisions regarding capital equipment in hospitals indicated that operating room (OR) caseloads and costs will continue to rise over the next three years, driven by growth in both outpatient and inpatient procedures.
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A patient shows up for outpatient surgery and informs you she has a microdermal implant. You're not sure exactly what that is or what that means in terms of pressure points, friction when moving, or other issues.
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is scaling back its oversight of needle safety issues in ambulatory care and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), though noting that some 3,200 inspections done in fiscal years 2010 and 2011 "have found that deficient infection control practices are widespread in ASCs," according to a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
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In what the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) is labeling a victory in the final ASC quality reporting elements, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) accepted the association's proposal to exclude any secondary payer claims from the data completeness calculation.
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CLEVELAND Every year the Cleveland (OH) Clinic releases the Top 10 list of medical innovations for the coming year.
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With outpatient surgery becoming increasingly complex, in terms of technology and patients, there is a growing trend toward requiring nurses to have their bachelor's of science in nursing (BSN) degree.
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Like many outpatient surgery facilities, you face drug shortages. You might have felt relief that youve been able to rely on compounding pharmacies to obtain the drugs you need in the single-use dosage you need until you learned about a nationwide meningitis outbreak from contaminated steroid medications originating at a Massachusetts compounding facility.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the final rule for ambulatory surgery center (ASC) and hospital outpatient department (HOPD) payments in 2013.
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Ninety percent of informed consent disputes involve disagreements about who said what and when, according to an analysis of 481 malpractice claims and patient complaints from Australia involving allegations of deficiencies in the process of obtaining informed consent.
