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Endoscopic procedures advance physician knowledge and patient care
05-22-2007 · EurekAlert!Research presented today at Digestive Disease Week® 2007 (DDW®) examines a new endoscopic suturing method for the treatment of gastrointestinal perforations and other types of transgastric surgery, as well as the use of wireless capsule endoscopy in young children, to better understand the pathology of the small intestine.
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11-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
Surgical confusions -- for instance, operations involving the wrong site, the wrong patient or the wrong procedure -- occur infrequently in eye surgery procedures, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Although most surgical confusions cause little or no permanent injury, they may involve serious consequences for the patient, physician and profession, yet could often be prevented.
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- Do specialty heart hospitals drive up heart care use? Study suggests the answer is yes
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Across the country, states are embroiled in a debate over "specialty hospitals" - physician-owned hospitals that focus on one area, such as heart care. The debate has intensified ever since a federal moratorium on new ones expired last year. Now, a new study reveals that areas where new heart hospitals open experience a faster rise in heart procedures than areas where general hospitals provide all heart care.
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11-29-2006 · EurekAlert!
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Patients with acute lung injury are nearly one-third less likely to die if they are treated at ICUs that require board-certified critical care physicians to oversee patient care, as compared to patients treated at ICUs that allow any attending physician to oversee admission and case management.
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- ACP challenges Congress to make 'fundamental changes' in Medicare payment policies
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"Congress has an historic opportunity to join with the American College of Physicians (ACP), other physician organizations and employers to redesign Medicare payment policies to provide incentives for patient-centered care," ACP told the House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health in a written statement for the record submitted today. Thursday’s hearing was on Options to Improve Quality and Efficiency Among Medicare Physicians.
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- Quality measurement, improvement of surgical care examined in the June issue of JACS
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The Journal of the American College of Surgeons devotes its June issue to a quality measurement program called the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. ACS NSQIP is the American College of Surgeons' quality improvement program that tracks the outcomes of various surgical procedures and provides data to help hospitals improve patient safety and quality of surgical care.
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