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Patient Access has New KPIs — Compare Your Department to Peers
Use new key performance indicators to determine if your department falls into the good, better or best categories.
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Monday's Media Caseload: Curing Medicare
If you're a practitioner who's dissatisfied with Medicare and the ACA, and you think you’re alone, think again.
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Farewell and Welcome
Dr. Robert Coleman, a member of the editorial board of OB/GYN Clinical Alert since 2004, has been elected as the next President of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists.
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Postoperative Delirium in Older Adults
The elderly operative patient has very different and specific needs compared to a younger woman. In addition to a higher risk of medical comorbidities, elderly women are affected by cognitive impairment, depression, gait, and balance disturbances.
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NIPT and Invasive Procedures
A single prenatal testing center with a large volume of patients has experienced a dramatic drop in the rate of chorionic villus sampling and amniocentesis after the introduction of noninvasive prenatal testing.
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Hormonal Contraception and Glioma: Is There Reason for Concern?
A large case-control study using the Danish National database found a slight increase in the risk of glioma in ever-users of hormonal contraception, which increased with duration of use. Users of progestin-only methods were at higher risk. However, these findings should not influence clinical practice or perception of contraceptive safety.
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Finding New Clinical Activity in Endometrial Cancer from Optimizing Molecular Pathways
Everolimus, combined with letrozole, produced unexpected clinical activity in a cohort of previously treated recurrent endometrial cancer patients.
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ASCA: New quality measures are likely
The Measure Applications Partnership has issued a draft recommendation supporting two additional measures in the Ambulatory Surgery Center Quality Reporting Program. The Partnership guides the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on performance measures.
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CMS addresses lower relative humidity in ORs
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has provided information on operating room (OR) relative humidity (RH) for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and supplemental information for hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) using the categorical waiver of Life Safety Code (LSC) Anesthetizing Location RH Requirements.
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FDA says to inform patients about risk of endoscopy linked to CRE infections
ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography), an upper endoscopy procedure performed on some half a million U.S. patients annually, poses a risk of transmission of practically untreatable carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE).