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Study: Hospitals In Fiscal Crisis

More than half of the nation's short-term, acute-care hospitals are either insolvent or near insolvency due to declining revenues from patient care ...

Automated Anesthesia System Unveiled

Researchers say they've developed a fully automated anesthesia system that administers drugs and monitors their effects in patients undergoing surge...

High Five for Hand Hygiene

Hospitals and ASCs in New Hampshire have been put on notice: It's time to get on board the first statewide initiative to improve hand hygiene compli...

Safety
Articles primarily related to patient and staff safety.
March 2008
Our Readers Come Clean on Home-laundered Scrubs
If the staff at the Surgery Center of Kansas had its way, the Wichita facility would buy its scrubs and let the staff launder them at home. "But our physicians...
March 2008
Administer Antibiotics Right on Time
Do your patients receive pre-op antibiotics when they should? And by this, I'm referring to the standard definition of having patients receive the agents withi...
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> 3/08: This Just In
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> 1/08: Less Medical Waste, Fewer Infections
> 1/08: This Just In
> 1/08: Ideas That Work
> 1/08: Safety
> 12/07: Getting Your Surgeons to Try Safety Scalpels
> 12/07: This Just In
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> 3/08: Help With Heavy Lifting
> 10/07: Secrets of a Successful Glove Trial
> 10/07: Safety Sharp Solutions
> 8/07: A Quick Check of Your Peripheral
> 8/07: Sleep Watching Through Surgery
> 8/07: What’s Your Consciousness Telling You?
> 8/07: Monitoring Your Anesthesia Supplies
> 8/07: The Push for Faster Recoveries
> 7/07: Safety
> 5/07: Can the OR Team Cause SSIs?
> 5/07: Make Antibiotic Prophylaxis Work
> 5/07: How Maintaining Normothermia Can Reduce Infections
> 3/07: Your Refresher on ESU Safety
> 3/07: Don’t Let Adhesions Happen to Your Patients
> 3/07: Eight Keys to Laparoscopic Surgery Safety
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