In 2013, 44.7 million Americans were over the age of 65 with current trends predicting that number to grow to 98 million by 2060. In response, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) have created a new set of best practices for treating elderly surgery...
Determining if a patient’s brain functions have irreversibly shut down is a crucial diagnosis; in many places it’s the same as declaring them fully dead.
Remember that the tracer methodology is not a static process; it is evolutionary. As organizational priorities, standards, and systems change, so will your tracer tools—and so will the process for conducting your tracers.
Five years after pharmaceutical experts began reviewing changes to sterile preparation requirements for pharmaceutical compounding, the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has released proposed regulatory updates aimed at preventing patient harm.
In July, doctors at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) performed the first hand transplant on a child. The 10-hour surgery, performed on an eight-year-old boy who had lost his hands and feet following a serious infection at the age of two, included 40 different surgeons, doctors...
