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Outpatient Surgery E-Weekly

Malpractice Verdicts Often Favor Physicians

Physicians come out on the winning end of 80% of malpractice claims that end in jury verdicts, according to researchers at Massachusetts General Hos...

Study: CT Colongraphy Effective in Finding Polyps

A CT-scan-based, laxative-free "virtual colonoscopy" may be as effective as standard colonoscopy in finding potentially cancerous polyps, according ...

Wrong-Site Prevention Video Shows the Right Way

Wrong-site, wrong-patient and wrong-procedure surgery must be prevented at all costs. The 3 steps of the Joint Commission's Universal Protocol make ...

Archive > January, 2003 Vol. IV, No. 1
FEATURES
Blocking Out Postop Pain
How one facility moved procedures to the outpatient setting by using single-injection and continuous-infusion peripheral nerve blocks.
The Great Surgical Prepping Debate
Determining the ''best'' surgical skin prep is mostly a matter of whom you choose to believe
How to Select a Patient Skin Prep Solution for Your OR
9 Strategies for Economizing Cataract Cases
Efficiency and volume, not cost cutting, are the keys to profitable cataract cases.
Weighing the Pros and Cons of Accreditation
If you're thinking about submitting your facility to a survey, consider these points.
What You Need to Know About Endoscope Reprocessing
When you follow this infection control guru's advice for cleaning, disinfecting and sterilizing flexible and rigid scopes, you'll be producing safe-to-use scopes.
This Just In
DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Page
Cost-Cutting at Whose Expense
Letters & Emails
A Hair Out of Place
Ideas That Work
Instrument Pouch Racks Save Time
Staffing
Saying 'No' to Your Surgeons
Coding & Billing
Submitting Clean Claims in 2003
If You're Thinking of Buying...
Power Tools
Site Visit
Southern Surgery Center, Hattiesburg, Miss.
For Everything Orthopedic
My Turn
Physician Supervision of Nurse Anesthetists
January 2003
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