TeamHealth, a leading provider of outsourced physician staffing solutions for hospitals, today announced the launch of PreOpGuide, a free mobile app for clinicians designed to reduce or eliminate ...

CVD Screening May Benefit Men with ED Findings from a first-of-its-kind study in JAMA Internal Medicine indicate that despite recommendations from professional organizations to limit certain routine ...

It wasn’t that long ago that cataract surgery meant two or three days in the hospital. Not so today. Cataract surgery is the most common type of elective surgical procedure done on Medicare patients.

HealthDay News — For patients undergoing mid urethral sling surgery, preoperative testing frequently does not adhere to national guidelines, according to a study published in the January issue of The ...

(HealthDay News) — For patients undergoing midurethral sling surgery, preoperative testing frequently does not adhere to national guidelines, according to a study published in The Journal of Urology.

We all want our surgery to go as smoothly as possible, but at what point is it not in our best interest to have lots of preoperative tests ordered?

Professional physician associations consider certain routine tests before elective surgery to be of low value and high cost, and have sought to discourage their utilization. Nonetheless, a new ...

Requiring patients to get blood work and other tests before undergoing cataract surgery hasn’t been recommended for more than a dozen years. There’s good reason for that: The eye surgery generally ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – Sentara will now allow non-COVID patients to have two visitors at its hospitals and emergency rooms in regions where the COVID-19 positivity rate remains below 5% for two ...

It wasn’t that long ago that cataract surgery meant two or three days in the hospital. Not so today. Cataract surgery is the most common type of elective surgical procedure done on Medicare patients.