Quality playbook systems preparing for outpatient procedure expansion focus on protocols, outcomes tracking, and staff readiness amid CMS rule changes.

As technological advancements make more procedures appropriate for the outpatient setting, surgery centers are looking to add more complex procedures than they have performed in the past. Lori Vernon, ...

Chinese surgeon successfully grafted human ear onto patient's foot using heterotopic grafting, advancing reconstructive ...

In both single-specialty urology and multi-specialty ASCs, longer, more complex procedures can be a good fit and good for profitability. The key for either type of facility is having a dedicated ...

Compared with patients who undergo surgery within 1 month of emergency department presentation, those waiting 6 months or more had significant 20% increased odds of undergoing complex surgery, data ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA—The use of intravascular imaging to guide complex PCI is associated with a significantly lower risk of target vessel failure when compared with conventional angiography, according to ...

A 3-year-old from West Texas is celebrating her first healthy Christmas at home thanks to a liver transplant. The highly ...

Female surgeons at a large academic medical center perform less complex surgical procedures than their male counterparts, according to a new study by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH ...

This article is brought to you by Our Lady of Lourdes. When Scott LeJeune started feeling fatigued, he thought he was just pushing himself too hard. The married father of five and owner of several ...