Same-Day Surgery – July 1, 2011
July 1, 2011
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Special issue: Avoiding lawsuits in outpatient surgery
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Do staff speak up about dangers, or give them `the silent treatment'?
(Editor's note: This issue includes the first part of a two-part series looking at the problem of staffing keeping silent when danger looms. This month we discuss the recently released report The Silent Treatment. We examine why staff don't speak up and how to address that problem. In next month's issue, we offer four recommendations to create a culture in which people speak up effectively about concerns.) -
Legal risks rise when clinicians date patients
A few months after performing breast augmentation on a patient, a California surgeon had a consensual three-month relationship with her. -
Warning! Some drugs diverted for murders
A 35-year-old nurse practitioner was convicted for the murder of her husband. She became a murder suspect after investigators discovered she had lied about an extramarital affair and had surreptitiously left the hospital and driven to her house shortly before the house was discovered on fire with her husband inside. -
Same-Day Surgery Manager: Three lessons for staying in the OR, not in court
Oh my. This is such a litigious time we live in. People are hurling themselves in front of moving buses, throwing themselves down steps, and falling in food stores, all in an effort to cash in on unearned and undeserved booty from insurance companies in frivolous lawsuits. -
Facility revamps safety after wrong-site surgery
(Editor's note: This issue includes the first part of a two-part series on how a hospital addressed a wrong-site surgery. This month, we look at the details of the event and how the facility responded. Next month we look at what specific changes were made and how the top leader started networking with other CEOs on safety issues.) -
ID theft — Should you spend more on security?
One-third of providers say their organization has had at least one known case of medical identity theft, and some of those cases might not have been reported, according to the most recent annual survey results from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). -
Is informed consent better on a computer?
There's a new trend in outpatient surgery toward computer-based informed consent. But does this method offer any advantages, legal or otherwise? Yes, according to sources interviewed by Same-Day Surgery.