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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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