Articles Tagged With: surgery
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Can you offer total hips and knees in 23 hours? Yes!
Start posting patients for hip replacements and send them home in less than 24 hours directly from your surgery center. No 72-hour-stay facility is needed.
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Day surgery patients registered at the bedside
At Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, patient access recently switched to bedside registration at the hospital’s 30-room day surgery department.
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System made changes to stop ‘no authorizations’
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare made changes to prevent clinically related denials.
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‘High patient dissatisfaction’ until wait times in registration were cut from 20 minutes to 8
Patient access leaders at Sutter Health often fielded complaints from patients about registration wait times. A new pre-registration process cut average registration wait times of 20 minutes to less than eight minutes. -
Are you prepared for high BMI patients or just focused on their gown sizes?
As the num ber of people in the general population with high body mass index (BMI) rises, outpatient surgery providers are seeing growing numbers of these patients. The question arises, are providers treating them appropriately? No, according to the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA). -
Mandatory reporting for adverse events jumps
More states are mandating adverse event reporting, and this trend could have a significant impact on healthcare providers, says Kathryn Schulke, BSN, a principal with the law firm of Booz Allen Hamilton in Rockville, MD. Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia have passed legislation requiring adverse event reporting, she says. -
Resident training and informed consent
According to a study that appears in Archives of Surgery, between 85% and 94% of patients were willing to sign forms permitting medical residents to assist surgeons, but many will not consent to giving residents a major role during surgery. -
Keep patients happy when delays occur
During morning surgery rush times, registrars at Indiana University Health North Hospital in Carmel began monitoring the actual time patients were arriving in a database. -
Which is better: open, laparoscopic, or robotic?
The author informs us that the winner of the 2010 Tour de France was Alberto Contador, riding a Specialized SL3 racing bike. The U.S. rider Chris Horner finished 12 minutes behind riding a Trek, Madone. -
Same-Day Surgery Manager: Revamping surgery in the outpatient area
By every standard, outpatient surgery is growing. The recession took a bite out of it, with many patients delaying elective surgery until they obtained new positions and health insurance. However, by and large, most facilities are seeing resurgence in cases again in the hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) and freestanding centers.