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Post-surgical pain control has come a long way since the days when patients were sent home with oral narcotics and no other way to control pain.
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In the last several years, seven bills have been introduced in Congress to ban outpatient mastectomies but have not passed.
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The findings of a new report on specialty hospitals are being debated by outpatient surgery experts who are drawing lines in the sand over whether the hospitals are a good idea.
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Leading epidemiologists say a global return of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) which wreaked havoc on the health care systems that had to deal with it is almost inevitable.
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One of the hottest sessions at the recent meeting of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management in Nashville, TN, addressed the recently issued final rule for the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.
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You might think youve done enough root-cause analyses that theyre old hat by now and you can just cruise through the process. If so, youre probably making common mistakes that create inconclusive analyses that fall short of addressing the problem.
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One of the best methods for eliminating costly back injuries in health care settings is to stop lifting patients. No lifting equals no back injuries, the experts say.
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Incomes are up slightly for health care risk managers this year, but you may be staying much later at the office.
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A 70-year-old man went to the emergency department complaining of shortness of breath. Although chest X-rays showed a suspicious mass in his left lung, physicians did not notify him or his primary care doctor. Nine months later, when he returned to the hospital complaining of shortness of breath, physicians discovered the man had lung cancer. A jury awarded the patient and his wife more than $2.8 million.
