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Accrediting agencies do not provide a blueprint for writing a strategic plan. However, The Joint Commission and Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) expect hospital, ambulatory surgery center (ASC), and office-based surgery administrators to devote time to planning.
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The ECRI Institute has said robotics should be on your radar for 2012, according to its top 10 watch list for CEOs, CFOs, and COOs1 (See complete list, below.) The list included one chapter with the provocative title, "Are costly robot wars coming to your operating room?
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Can you believe that 2012 is almost 25% over! It just started, for heaven's sake! Myself, I'm still struggling with issues from 2011.
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At Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, there is a standard eight-step process for writing strategic plans.
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If ambulatory surgery center (ASC) managers want to ace the Medicare survey, they should make sure staff members understand what will be assessed and current best practices for the standards.
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Fall prevention efforts usually target those thought most likely to fall, but does that leave the other patients at risk if no one is paying attention to their potential for falling?
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A post hoc analysis of patients with bacteremia due to ESBL-producing E.coli (ESBL-EC) from 6 published cohorts was performed. Treatment with B-lactam/B-lactamase inhibitors (BLBI) vs. carbapenems did not show any difference in mortality or length of hospital stay.
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In this study of a statewide administrative database, among 138,720 adult patients admitted to an ICU, uninsured patients had a 25% higher likelihood of death within 30 days compared with privately insured patients, differences that persisted after multiple adjustments for demographics, severity of illness, and site of care. Uninsured patients received central venous catheterization, acute hemodialysis, and tracheostomy significantly less often than insured patients.
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Common specific causes of fever in Finnish returned travelers were Campylobacter, malaria, bacteremia, HIV, and influenza; they included a significant proportion of potentially life-threatening infections, and more than one diagnosis. Evaluation of such fevers should be systematic and thorough.
