The Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research has released its 2011 State Snapshots, which provides an overview of each state's performance on a range of quality metrics.
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The Advanced Medical Technology Association has issued a news release praising final Senate passage of legislation to reauthorize the "Medical Device User Fee Act."
Covidien has announced it has completed the previously announced acquisition of Oridion Systems, according to a news release.
The Joint Commission has released its seventh episode in the animated Speak Up video series, "Speak Up: Know Your Rights."
The Minnesota Department of Health, the Association for Professionals in Infection Prevention and Control-Minnesota Emerging Pathogens Task Force and other national experts published three lessons learned from the state's Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae prevention project.
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Traditional surveillance using the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network methodology may be the superior method of measuring and reporting healthcare-associated infections, compared two to other methods, according to a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Nueterra recently acquired an ownership stake in San Francisco-based Health Travel Technologies, according to a release.
Edward M. Tavel, Jr., MD, is the medical director and a pain management physician with Pain Specialists of Charleston (Pa.).
Here are 10 clinical and operational statistics on knee arthroscopy, according to a 2011 clinical study of the procedure including results from 40 organizations that performed a combined total of more than 11,000 procedures annually.
The American Hospital Association has identified flaws in The Leapfrog Group's patient safety scoring method, according to an AHA News Now report.