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Charles Tullius, MD, is a board certified anesthesiologist with Keystone Anesthesia Consultants in Washington, Pa.

Lee Memorial Health System's Outpatient Surgery Center opened in November 2011 in the middle of a unique market. While the market in Fort Myers, Fla., was saturated with physician-owned single specialty ASCs, Lee Memorial's center is 100 percent owned by…

The ASC Quality Collaboration offers a free toolkit designed to help healthcare organizations boost environmental infection prevention.

The American Academy of Ophthalmology offers a free, downloadable checklist for the prevention of wrong-site surgery during eye procedures.

The National Quality Forum Board of Directors has endorsed 14 patient safety measures with a focus on complications.

CMS is soliciting comments (pdf) on an insurance exchange satisfaction survey.

An estimated 38 percent of patients who have migraines need preventive treatment, but only about one-third of them use it, according to study reported in Pain Medicine News.

NeurogesX, a pharmaceutical company developing non-opioid pain management therapies, today announced that it has received approval for two patents for NGX-1998, a liquid formulation of prescription strength capsaicin.

Fifty projects have received a total of $30 million over two years from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

Survey results published in the Archives of Internal Medicine reveal that physicians often come to work sick due to a sense of loyalty to already-overwhelmed peers and a commitment to patient care. This mentality can have unintended consequences, including compromised…