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The Michigan Health & Safety Coalition offers a free, downloadable toolkit to boost patient safety in hospital intensive care units.

Cygnus Medical is launching its newest line of operating room infection control devices, Clear Path. The two main Clear Path products are the ribbed microfiber mop system and disposable non-woven microfiber wipes.

Timothy Beluscak II is the administrator of Jacksonville Beach (Fla.) Surgery Center, a four-OR, multispecialty surgery center that is part of the Symbion Healthcare family of surgery centers. Mr. Beluscak first joined Jacksonville Beach Surgery Center in January 2001 but…

Boston Scientific has received the CE Mark for the Precision Plus Spinal Cord Stimulator System, a rechargeable SCS device.

Kimberly-Clark announced its SInergy Cooled Radiofrequency System is now eligible fore reimbursement under the new sacroiliac joint denervation policy adopted by Horizon Health Services, a large health insurer in New Jersey.

Spine surgeons, along with all specialists, are increasingly becoming employed by hospitals for a variety of reasons: starting salary is higher, set working hours and the ability to focus on the clinic instead of worry about the business. However, hospital…

Here are six spine surgeons discussing out-of-network contracts for spine surgery.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Aligning Forces for Quality published a report (pdf) discussing public reporting of quality data.

Researchers from Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland found misdiagnoses in almost one in four ICU deaths, according to a study published in BMJ Quality & Safety.

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses is asking members to comment on a revised position statement on the role of advanced practice registered nurses in preoperative settings.