Kimberly-Clark has launched the Quick Response Code Patient Safety Education Program in collaboration with Safe Care Campaign to provide hospitals and healthcare facilities with free patient and caregiver education available instantly at the bedside.
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Patient Safety First, a United Kingdom-based campaign led by The National Patient Safety Agency, offers a free, downloadable surgical safety checklist designed just for administrative leaders.
A large percentage of the total volume of ambulatory surgery centers are single specialty GI and ophthalmology facilities. A high demand for these procedures, low and predictable cost and short recovery and procedure times have made them a natural fit…
An FDA panel today decided to allow Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals to continue trials for painkillers that were linked to joint failure after clinical trials in 2010, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
The FDA suspended plans to relaunch the cancer pain treatment drug Onsolis pending changes to manufacturing issues with the product, according to a Medcity New report.
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Federal officials have overhauled Medicare billing statements to make it easier for seniors to detect fraud, according to a report in Record Online.
The number of healthcare jobs in Pennsylvania has grown in the last 20 years, driven by an increase in jobs in the ambulatory surgery and outpatient settings, according to a Times-Tribune report.
Physician shortages will present challenges for medical groups in 2012, according to data from Cejka Search and American Medical Group Association's 2011 Physician Retention Survey.
Five pain management physicians discuss urine drug testing in their centers and practices.
Sanjay Gupta, MD, assistant professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine and chief medical correspondent for CNN, has released a new fiction book that highlights the impact of medical errors, according to a CBS report. Read the full…