Keeps patient throughput smooth with this Idea That Works.

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Medication safety pop quiz. Are you complying with best practices in medication safety?

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Stay on your stool in the OR with this Idea That Works.

Surgeons' Lounge: Hollywood premiere. Increase surgeon attendance at meetings

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Avoid these 5 patient positioning disasters. From pressure ulcers to vision loss, don't let positioning problems happen on your watch.

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Olympus issues new duodenoscope reprocessing instructions. New guidelines focus on problematic elevator channel.

Weather or not. Does severe weather ever scrub your surgical schedule?

Dentist accused of leaving sedated kids alone. One wandered in the waiting room; the other called his mother.

244 ASCs will be part of Tenet-USPI joint venture. The Tenet-USPI joint venture will be the largest provider of ambulatory surgery in the United States.

The evolution of EMRs. Electronic documentation systems continue to imp-rove, offering advantages inside and outside the OR.