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Hospital administrators understand that the complexity of health care insurance and billing these days requires continuous education of staff.
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Lack of understanding and apprehension about anesthesia might lead as many as one in four patients to postpone surgery, according to the Vital Health Report, a quarterly health survey of Americans by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA).
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In my recent column, I lashed out at facilities that require patients to arrive an hour or two or more before their surgery time.
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Accreditation organizations are making an "all-out effort" to focus on safe needle use in 2011, according to Marsha Wallander, RN, assistant director of accreditation services at the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).
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Most young people who are interested in becoming surgeons have only TV to give them a glimpse of a world that is normally off limits to all but clinical staff and patients.
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Consider evaluating educational materials, such as an educational sheet, self-care instructions, or an informational web site, with a usability test instead of a focus group, says Dana Botka, manager of customer communications with the Washington Department of Labor and Industries in Olympia.
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Male pattern baldness treated with oral dutasteride; Home-based diagnosis of sleep apnea; What is the risk of bariatric surgery?; Comparing insulin and incretins; Which is better: COX2 or NSAID plus PPI?; Combination therapy to prevent DM2
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All emergency physicians are comfortable caring for the patient in acute pulmonary edema. Initial treatment of this emergency condition has changed little in the past decade. However the treatment of less acute patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) has changed dramatically in the recent past.