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Unlicensed Cosmetic Surgery Hospitalizes 6 in N.J.

New Jersey medical authorities are investigating the incidence of and issuing alerts on unlicensed cosmetic surgery providers after 6 women suffered...

Rotator Cuff Repair Restores Strength, Not Function

Rotator cuff surgery may restore a patient's normal shoulder strength, but mobility issues persist in the repaired joint, according to researchers a...

Do Patients Expect Too Much From Joint Replacement?

Even with a thorough pre-op education program, more than two-thirds of joint replacement patients don't share the expectations that their surgeons d...


	Archive > November, 2006	Vol. VII, No. 11

FEATURES

Rubbed the Wrong Way

Avoid common misuses of alcohol-based hand rubs to improve your hand hygiene protocol.

Take the Tedium Out of Credentialing

Find out how software can make reappointing your docs not only faster, but also easier and more cost-effective.

4 Ways to Outsmart Post-op Pain

How accurately does your staff measure and treat patient discomfort?

The Backbones of Profitable Spine Surgery

Spine isn't yet a high-volume outpatient procedure, but it's one of the better-paying specialties.

Scope Reprocessing: 4 Corners You Just Can't Cut

In these areas, you should be doing more, not less.

Do You Demo?

If you want more equipment than your budget will allow, a simple solution may be to buy a manufacturer's demonstration product.

Banking on Allograft Safety

How to ensure that bone and tissue implementation is successful.

Thinking of Buying...OR Lights

Quality illumination depends on stability and usability.

DEPARTMENTS

Editor's Page

"Under Arrangements" Not Going Over Well

Letters & E-mail

NPPE is real and more common than you'd like to think

This Just In

MedPAC to ASCs' rescue?

Ideas That Work

A code of conduct for all generations

Staffing

The Quintessential Surgical Center Employee

Legal Update

Can You Lease Equipment From Your Docs?

Business Advisor

How to Avoid Silent PPOs

Coding & Billing

Are You Misusing the -59 Modifier?

Product News

Are We Heading Toward a Scar-free Future?

Behind Closed Doors

Postcards From a Traveling Nurse

November 2006