The rate of completion of a surgical safety checklist improved when a printed checklist was used as a memory tool, according to a study in BMJ Quality and Safety. Researchers studied the use of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Richard Menger is a neurosurgeon and a political scientist. A post-operative x-ray showing a spinal deformity correction for ...

A new UCLA study reveals that a widely used federal hospital safety metric is fundamentally flawed when applied to emergency ...

Natividad has earned national recognition from the American College of Surgeons (ACS) National Surgical Quality Improvement ...

Study shows office-based lens surgery is safe as - or safer than - lens surgery in the literature. KANSAS CITY, MO / ACCESSWIRE / June 27, 2023 / iOR Partners, the pioneer in office-based surgery (OBS ...

After finding flaws with a federal patient safety metric, researchers at Los Angeles-based UCLA Health are calling for revisions. In a study published Oct. 12 in the Journal of NeuroInterventional ...

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Patients who receive care from female anesthesia providers, especially non-trainees, experience fewer complications during surgery, a new study found. In this retrospective cohort study, the ...

ECRI Institute provides a free, downloadable poster detailing recommendations to prevent surgical fires. ECRI notes that the applicability of its recommendations must be considered individually for ...

Semaglutide and related drugs for weight loss have co-opted bariatric medicine in recent months. They have also raised serious questions for hospital-based clinicians who wonder whether the drugs may ...

A new smart monitoring system could help doctors avoid mistakes—but it’s also alarming some surgeons and leading to sabotage. The first time Teodor Grantcharov sat down to watch himself perform ...