The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey is the first national, standardized, publicly reported (on the Hospital Compare website at www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov) survey of patients' perspectives of hospital care.
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The following is written by Sheldon S. Sones, RPh, FASCP, President, Sheldon S. Sones and Associates. Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAO inhibitors or MAOIs) are drugs which, by virtue of their pharmacological mechanisms of action, may lead to an exaggerated…
Comprehensive pain management clinics are very different from pill mills, which have been linked to the nationwide epidemic of prescription pain medication abuse. "Pill mills market themselves as 'pain clinics' but operate in a manner far different from the balanced…
Professional Disposables International, a provider of infection prevention products for environmental hygiene, skin antisepsis, hand hygiene and patient care, has announced Nice-Pak/PDI has received the top honor at the World of Wipes International Conference.
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, is CEO and board chairman of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians.
The Health Resources and Services Administration has developed a sample patient satisfaction survey form.
Chicago — The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, the national association for surgery centers, and ASC Communications, publisher of Becker's ASC Review, announce VMG Health has been named a corporate sponsor for the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference, to be…
HHS will be administering up to $500 million in Partnership for Patients funding to help healthcare providers improve healthcare care and patient safety, according to an HHS news release.
B. Braun has received FDA 510(k) clearance for adding 1 gram and 2 gram Ceflazidime injections within the DUPLEX System, according to a company news release.
A study from the July 2011 issue of Anesthesiology analyzed whether patients who experience post-operative nausea and vomiting have a genetic predisposition to the side effect, according to a Newswise report.