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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 > August, 2009	Vol. X, No. 8

FEATURES

Eliminating Deadweight Docs

If you're looking to redeem the ownership of unproductive physicians, these buy-back strategies will do the trick.

Is Your Hand Hygiene Program Built to Last?

How to sustain hand-hygiene compliance after celebrating your first success.

Retrofitting Your ORs With Booms

Our hospital's ceiling booms wouldn’t work in our ASC, so we decided to bolt our booms to the floor.

How to Avoid Unnecessary Catheterizations

Wouldn't it be nice to know whether catheterization was truly needed?

Scrubbed and Stoned

A look inside the shocking story of how a surgical tech's addiction to fentanyl put thousands of patients at risk for hepatitis C infection.

6 Secrets of Our Turnaround Success

Blood, sweat and tears weren't enough to save my surgery center.

Make Your GI Endoscopy Service More Efficient

Tips on how to shave minutes and dollars off of procedures, turnarounds and cleaning.

What Do You Know About Patient Draping?

Test your knowledge of the evidence supporting this daily practice.

New Options for Ophthalmic Surgery

What we saw at the ASCRS exhibit hall.

Thinking of Buying...LED Surgical Lights

This new technology costs more, but has many benefits.

DEPARTMENTS

Editor's Page

Would You Have Hired Kristen Parker?

Letters & E-mails

In defense of accreditation surveyors

This Just In

Capital Equipment Financing

Ideas That Work

How Clean Is Your Soap?

Coding & Billing

Surgeons Buying Premium IOLs a Poor Idea

Business Advisor

3 Dirty Tricks Insurers Play

Anesthesia Alert

5 Conditions to Monitor Closely

Legal Update

Out-of-network's Risks Melting Away

Infection Prevention

Clearing 4 Instrument Processing Hurdles

Safety

Preventing Deep Vein Thrombosis

Product News

Patient warming, accreditation assistance, suture organization and more

Behind Closed Doors

Will That Be Cash, Check or Charge?

August 2009

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