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While no one wants to experience a fire, it is an opportunity to evaluate how well the emergency plan works and what small changes might improve it.
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Surgery centers are busy. Theres no question about that. But they are also big business, and someone needs to keep track of the business end. It takes constant monitoring to stay on the right track.
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James G. Parker Insurance Associates in Fresno, CA, has negotiated exclusive terms and conditions for ambulatory surgery centers and surgical hospitals to obtain medical malpractice insurance.
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The final rule for the hospital outpatient prospective payment system provides a congressionally mandated 3.5% inflationary update to hospitals Medicare outpatient payment rates for FY 2003. Here is a summary from the American Hospital Association.
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A listing by subject category of all articles published in Same-Day Surgery newsletter in 2002.
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The Institute of Medicine has called for some major changes in IRBs and research, including suggestions that research grants and sponsors, as well as research institutions, put more money into the process of protecting human subjects.
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Rather than treat the risk of harm and potential for benefit as two weights on opposite sides of a scale, IRBs and researchers should fully explore and express the potentials of each, say research ethics experts.
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A key issue in determining whether IRB review is necessary is whether the program in question is, in fact, research. While at least one federal regulation has defined research, the application of the definition provided by the regulation is not always clear.
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