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The times, they are a changin'. Surgical patients used to arrive at hospitals the day before surgery, where staff did all the prep work to ensure patients were as clean as possible to avoid post-surgical infections.
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With almost 80% of cell phone owners reporting they use text messaging, it is no surprise that physicians are doing the same.
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After a cautious and rigorous analysis of national malpractice claims, Johns Hopkins patient safety researchers estimate that a surgeon in the United States leaves a foreign object such as a sponge or a towel inside a patient's body after an operation 39 times a week, performs the wrong procedure on a patient 20 times a week, and operates on the wrong body site 20 times a week.
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A program to decrease surgical infections in knee, hip, and back procedures is a winner of the 2012 Bernard A. Kershner Innovations in Quality Improvement Awards. The award for surgical/procedural care is given annually by the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement (AAAHC Institute). An initiative to increase patient satisfaction garnered honorable mention.
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There are several disparate areas in which following a vendor or consultant's recommendations could lead to liability for a provider or facility, warns Henry C. Fader, JD, an attorney at Pepper Hamilton in Philadelphia.
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Part of my job is to review technology: hardware, software, web applications, cell phone apps, and the like. What a sweet job, right?
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Faced with the closing of the state psychiatric hospital in their community, hospitals, law enforcement, mental health providers, and community agencies in Raleigh, NC, began collaborating on improving care and transitions for the mentally ill.
