The American Academy of Ophthalmology is disputing a cost comparison between cataract surgery and a primary care office visit, calculated by a Washington analyst in the Wall Street Journal, according to an AAO news release.
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The Georgia Composite Medical Board has suspended the license of a physician assistant who administered a lethal dose of anesthesia to a five-year-old girl in June, according to a WSBTV report.
A mailed educational reminder asking patients to return their fecal occult blood test cards for a colorectal cancer screening is more cost-effective than other patient-directed interventions, such as telephone calls and letters from physicians, according to a BMC report.
Wolters Kluwer Health has announced Lancaster (Pa.) General Hospital has selected its ProVation MD software for gastroenterology documentation, coding and image integration, according to a news release (pdf).
The Office of Inspector General conducted unannounced visits to 132 independent diagnostic testing facilities in the Los Angeles area, finding 46 of them to be noncompliant with selected Medicare standards, according to an OIG report. Of those that were noncompliant,…
The Measure Applications Partnership delivers recommendations on alignment of public and private payors to reduce healthcare-associated conditions and readmissions and alignment of clinician performance measures. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on the Measure Applications Partnership.
More than 60 percent of hospital nurses' and physicians' uniforms tested positive for potentially dangerous bacteria, according to a study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Infection Control.
Like wrong-site surgery and medication errors, W. Jan Allison, RN, CHSP, director of accreditation and survey readiness, clinical services department, for Surgical Care Affiliates, says another adverse event that occurs with too much frequency in ambulatory surgery centers is complications…
JPS Diagnostic & Surgery Hospital of Arlington (Texas) has been relicensed and reopened as an ambulatory surgery center, according to a Star-Telegram report.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention make the following 10 recommendations to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections.