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Collaboration to Standardize Care and Quality Improvement in Joint Replacement
The Joint Commission (TJC) and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) have created a new collaboration for Total Hip and Knee Replacement (THKR) certification. AAOS brings clinical expertise to the collaboration while TJC contributes standards development and performance measurement requirements.
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ASCs Continue Struggling With False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute
Some ASCs shell out millions of dollars to settle False Claims Act or federal Anti-Kickback Statute violations. These often are the result of whistleblower reports and could have been caused by ASCs not conducting proper research before selling shares in the business. Other times, ASCs end up in compliance trouble often because leaders were not cautious when choosing tactics to improve their competitiveness in the healthcare marketplace.
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Medicare’s 2019 Final ASC Payment Rule Includes Several ASCA Suggestions
The final ASC payment rule for 2019 provides some long-awaited improvements regarding how ASC payment rates are determined. Specifically, ASC payment rates now tie their rate increases to the same inflation rate that has been used for hospital outpatient departments.
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Strong for Surgery Targets Specific Health Issues
The Strong for Surgery program includes checklists that target eight areas, including four lists that were released in November 2018. In addition to nutrition, glycemic control, and medication management, the new targets are safe and effective pain management after surgery, delirium, prehabilitation, and patient directives.
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Strong for Surgery Program Could Help Centers Reduce Complications
Surgery safety measures are extending to the presurgery sphere. Hospitals, surgeons, and ambulatory surgery centers are working together under a Strong for Surgery program to teach facilities how to reduce post-surgical complications through engaging patients in activities that will improve their health before they undergo surgical procedures.
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What Does the Sinus P Look Like?
The ECG in the figure was obtained from a woman in her 50s who complained of intermittent chest discomfort in recent weeks. She was hemodynamically stable at the time this tracing was obtained. How might one interpret the ECG?
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Sufentanil Sublingual Tablets (Dsuvia) CII
Sufentanil sublingual tablets are for adults with acute pain that is severe enough to require an opioid analgesic for which different treatments have proven insufficient.
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Should Aspirin Be Used for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events?
The conclusion from a series of groundbreaking studies is that primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and death by using daily low-dose aspirin is not recommended and should be reserved for those instances in which secondary prevention has been demonstrated to be effective in randomized, clinical trials.
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Costs and Consequences of Chronic Pain Among U.S. Adults
Annually, chronic pain accounts for an estimated $560 billion in direct medical costs, lost productivity, and disability programs. Identifying populations at risk is the first step for developing targeted interventions for pain management.
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Risk of Infective Endocarditis Revisited
In a comparison of patients with infective endocarditis (IE) and either bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) or mitral valve prolapse (MVP) vs. other IE patients at high or low-to-moderate risk of IE, BAV and MVP patients were more likely to exhibit viridans group streptococci infections of suspected odontogenic origin and cardiac complications at similar rates to high-risk patients.