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In its previous "Recommended Practice for Surgical Attire," the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) didn't recommend home laundering, but for those facilities that did it, it offered some guidance on how to do it as safely as possible.
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The winner of the Healthcare Administrator Award from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) is the chief executive officer of an ambulatory surgery center.
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It was a busy Friday in September at the Farmington Surgery Center at the University of Connecticut Health Center. Patients were recovering from anesthesia.
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Next month's issue will focus on saving money and generating revenue in outpatient surgery.
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Alert fatigue can lead to behaviors in health care that might seem fine until the day they cause a tragedy, says John Banja, PhD, assistant director for health sciences and clinical ethics at Emory University in Atlanta.
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Like most, I was inspired by the rescue of the Chilean miners in October. I felt an enormous urge to accomplish something significant, to finish projects I had left dangling or follow up on other issues that individually weren't a big deal but collectively were.
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Research sites that work with minority, international, or vulnerable populations should be particularly sensitive to continuing fall-out from recent revelations of strikingly unethical behavior by U.S. researchers in Guatemala in the 1940s.
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No one can predict yet whether or not the growing infamy of the Guatemalan syphilis study results in enrollment problems for researchers engaged in international research.
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Investigators at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, have found an electronic solution to the problem of collecting accurate data about subjects' daily activities.
