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Facility Has ‘One-Stop’ Process at Patient’s Bedside
Patient satisfaction scores soared after bedside registration was implemented at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington, IL.
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Take These Steps to Avoid Issues With Instruments
In outpatient surgery, physician staff often pressure techs to quickly turn around sets and scopes for cases, says Marcia Patrick, MSN, RN, CIC, a Tacoma, WA-based consultant, educator, and surveyor for the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.
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Have Systems in Place to Report Problems with Surgical Instruments
When experiencing repeated problems with surgical instruments that are broken, missing, or dirty, documentation of such problems is key to resolving the issue, says R. Stephen Trosty, JD, MHA, CPHRM, ARM, risk management and patient safety consultant in Haslett, MI.
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Surgical Instruments’ Sterilization Probed After 11 Years of Complaints
“It’s a surgeon’s nightmare.” These words, spoken by a physician at Detroit Medical Center, ran in The Detroit News in a multi-story investigative series about how physicians had reported unclean, missing, and damaged surgical instruments for 11 years without the issue being resolved.
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Easing ED Crowding While Offering Convenience
Several health systems believe that giving patients the ability to link with a provider from any location at any time has the potential not only to positively address the kinds of access problems that drive people to the ED, but also to deliver the type of convenience that healthcare consumers crave.
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Using Telemedicine to Address Crowding in the ED
Early telemedicine pioneers see ED applications evolving as consumers demand greater access and convenience.
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An Alternative View on Regionalized STEMI Care
Expert: “You have to wonder if we have to do something differently than this.”
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Time to Move the Goal Posts on STEMI Care?
Given that most hospitals already meet the door-to-balloon time standard, one expert maintains that it is time to aim for the more aggressive indicator.
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Pushing the Envelope on STEMI Response
Investigators maintain that every minute of treatment delay leads to irreversible heart damage in patients suffering STEMI.
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The Importance of Low Uric Acid in Gout Patients
Consistent abolition of acute flares has been confirmed only when uric acid levels < 6.0 mg/dL are maintained over the long term.