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Don't think that your staff can fake their way through answers during the patient tracer section of an unannounced survey by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, says Nancy Hammes, patient care director in day surgery at Franciscan Skemp La Crosse (WI) Campus.
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Between 2% and 5% of patients undergoing surgical procedures will develop a surgical site infection that results in additional costs that range from $2,734 to $26,019 for each infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control's National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance system.
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Billing data, supply costs, staff costs, and patient satisfaction are top issues for all outpatient surgery managers, but benchmark studies that address these areas don't always focus on similar procedures so that comparisons can be made easily.
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Results of the recent Ambulatory Surgery Non-Clinical Study for Cataract Extraction with Lens Insertion and Colonoscopy include the following statistics:
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Reaction to the results of the "staff costs" category of the Ambulatory Surgery Non-Clinical Study for Cataract Extraction with Lens Insertion was mixed, with the organization that reported the lowest cost expressing surprise and the organization posting the highest cost not planning any changes. The study was conducted by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care's Institute for Quality Improvement.
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An increased incidence of toxic anterior segment syndrome (TASS) following outpatient cataract surgery has been reported recently, according to an alert issued by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
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The authors sought to determine the relationship between psychiatric and sexual status of premenopausal women with fibromyalgia compared to a control group of healthy women.
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The first transdermal patch has been approved for the treatment of depression. Selegiline is an irreversible monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI)...
