Outpatient Surgery Magazine Archive

The Quest for Faster Room Turnover; 9 steps for more efficient room setup and teardown.

Ideas That Work: No Sweat; Tracking OR Humidity Levels

Ideas That Work: Perpetual Inventory; It Pays to Know When Drugs Are Set to Expire

Ideas That Work: Remember to Wash Your Hands; When Everyone's a Hand Hygiene Spy

Bone Up On Bone Grafts; A breakdown of the materials that help build bones back up.

Thinking of Buying: Pre-sterilized Implants and Procedural Kits; Surgery-ready implants and disposable instrument sets in a box.

5 Innovations in Infection Prevention; To defeat the infectious invaders on the front lines of surgical care, you have to fight dirty.

Patient Education Is Key to Reducing Opioids; When patients are involved in their recovery, they need less pain medication.

Ideas That Work: Pamper Your Staff; /issues/2018/06/ideas-that-work-pamper-your-staff

Who's Handling Your Patient Satisfaction Surveys? The postponement of the OAS CAHPS program shouldn't delay your search for a CMS-approved vendor.