Coding & Billing: Don't Leave Money on the Table; The bundling guidance you follow impacts your reimbursement rates.

Ideas That Work: Team Building; Let Staff Show Their True Colors

Ideas That Work: Sticky Solution; Gum Speeds Up Post-Op Digestive Function

How Do You Enhance Patient Safety? Readers reveal the solutions they use to augment the efforts of their protective-minded surgical teams.

Nerve blocks are the most targeted form of analgesia available, arming your anesthesia providers with the ability to direct local anesthetics to specific areas of the body to...

Why does the opioid epidemic hit home for you? Ilan Kirsh, my best friend from childhood, died on the stoop of my apartment in...

Who Has Access to Your Medications? Reduce diversion risks with these drug security and disposal solutions.

You could make a legitimate argument that the CDC’s labeling of pain as “the fifth vital sign” in 2001 did more harm than good and directly contributed to the current opioid...

One of our facility's surgeons is well known for sending patients home after surgery with 3 opioid pills. That's it. His patients are initially surprised and wonder if that will be...

Standardized Scripts for Every Surgery; Tailoring pill counts to procedure type will right-size your post-op opioid prescriptions.

To prevent the next patient from getting hooked on opioids, let’s first consider what helped cause the national epidemic to spiral out of control. It wasn’t surgeons passing...

Those who accuse surgery of fanning the flames of the opioid epidemic point to misguided efforts to mask virtually all post-op pain and discomfort by writing...

Like many Americans, my life has been radically altered by the opioid crisis. More than a decade ago, a family member was prescribed 50 pills of OxyContin for a relatively...

Ideas That Work: Facility Feud; Game-show Themed Events Help Safety Training Stick

Safety: Simulate Emergencies in Bedside Mock Drills; Let staff practice their response to urgent situations before they occur

Master of the Airway; Are your providers comfortable with an airway device in their hands?

Ideas That Work: Cap and Gown; Caps Put Smiles on Kids' Faces

Ideas That Work: Seeing Is Believing; Pictures Are Worth a Thousand Warnings

Boost Your Adenoma Detection Rate; ADR is the gold standard in colonoscopy quality. Do you measure up?

Salary Survey: Your annual paycheck checkup