Winning against SSI read missions
The new federal Partnership for Patients, rolled out in April 2011, seeks to save 60,000 lives over the next 3 years by stopping millions of preventable complications and injuries. Part of the goal is reducing hospital readmissions by 20% by the end of 2013 over 2010 levels. Surgical site infections…
Closing the research-practice gap
New clinical evidence can take a long time to find its way into practice. How to accelerate that process is the subject of a new project by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Project JOINTS, rolled out in 5 states in April 2011, focuses on accelerating adoption of evidence-based practices…
Updated AORN RPs for laser safety
Updated AORN recommendations on laser safety cover safe practices wherever lasers are used in the health care facility. The recommendations reflect the new ANSI Z136.3 Safe Use of Lasers in Health Care Facilities standard, expected shortly from the Laser Institute of America. AORN's revised "Recommended practices for laser safety in…
AAMI offers benchmarking on sterile reprocessing
A new benchmarking tool from the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) will help sterile processing departments measure their performance with others across the country. Using the online tool, available by subscription, managers can fill out a survey of more than 130 benchmarking measures on topics such as…
Pain is a growing business for ASCs
The technology of pain relief is improving constantly, and ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) are finding that staying abreast of this growing specialty serves patients as well as their bottom line. For the increasingly complex orthopedic procedures that are migrating to the outpatient setting, pain management is a critical element. Sufferers…
Benchmarking facility times for pain
Pain management procedures have exploded in ambulatory settings, just as GI endoscopy and cataract surgery did previously. More than 1.5 million low-back injections for the treatment of pain or mobility problems are conducted each year, and that number is expected to rise as the population ages. Injections for low back…
New bill would fix ASC payments
A new bill introduced in the US Congress June 3, 2011, if passed, would place ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) on what the ASC industry says is a more equal footing with hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) in their Medicare payment updates. ASCs currently are reimbursed at 56% of the amount paid…
Updated guideline on CI scope reprocessing
The Multisociety Guideline on Reprocessing Flexible GI Endoscopes has been updated from its original 2003 edition. Among changes: added details on critical reprocessing steps, including cleaning and drying reprocessing issues for scope attachments, such as flushing catheters. There is also discussion of issues that have incomplete data to guide practice,…
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