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A focus on the outpatient surgery building, quality improvement, and an emphasis on credentialing processes were priorities for surveyors from the Association for the Accreditation of Ambulatory Health Care who visited two ambulatory surgery centers this year.
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Question: We looked at the new rates for surgery center reimbursement and were delighted to see the increase in our procedure reimbursement. Is it safe to open the champagne?
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Consumers now have on-line access to information on facility costs and Medicare payments for 61 procedures performed in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs).
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The Institute for Safe Medication Practices and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have launched a national education campaign designed to reduce medication errors.
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Peer review is a key component of any credentialing and privileging process but it does require some effort if the outpatient surgery program is office-based, admit experts interviewed by SDS Accreditation Update.
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The first study to evaluate adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in a large population of hospitalized Medicare patients has found that only 53% of hospitals representing 67% of the patients studied appeared to have functional systems for reporting ADRs.
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In 2005, Lawrence (KS) Memorial Hospital had a medication error rate that was less than one mistake out of every 10,000 dosages, good but not good enough, according to hospital director of pharmacy and IV therapy Pat Parker.
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New research has shown that a computerized tool in the hands of health care professionals who work together can effectively increase the number of patients who receive laboratory safety monitoring of drug therapy.
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A study by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) says pharmacists and other health care professionals must allow and encourage patients to take a more active role in their own medical care if the number of adverse drug events (ADE) is to be reduced.
