Tom Jacobs is president and CEO of MedHQ, a Westchester, Ill.-based business office outsourcing service for health care, ambulatory surgery centers, surgical hospitals, imaging centers and physician-affiliated businesses.
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The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority offers a free, downloadable post on how to prevent airway fires during surgery.
Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston have found that drug recalls, although common, are not well communicated to the public, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine and reported by Fox.
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Results from the Leapfrog Group's newly introduced hospital report card shows nearly half of the 2,652 general hospitals issued a Hospital Safety Score earned a "C" or below.
Family members of children with a staph infection often harbor a drug-resistant form of the germ, although they don't show symptoms, a team of researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has found.
A CMS letter to its state survey agency directors reiterates that insulin pens should only be used on a single patient.
MedBridge, an ambulatory surgery center development and management company, has made several changes to its management team, according to a NoozHawk report.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute addresses standards for patient-centered outcomes research in its draft methodology report (pdf).