Quality improvement is an integral part of anesthesia practice success, according to Spiro G. Spanakis, DO, of Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Medical Center. Anesthesia Business Consultants ...

The following quality improvement activities for office-based anesthesia are recommended by the American Society of Anesthesiologists‘ Committee on Ambulatory Surgical Care and the Society for ...

The anesthesiology department implemented a program to capture and report quality metrics. After staff education, monthly e-mail reports were sent to each anesthesiology physician and nurse ...

Last week’s alert discussed the growing trend toward including performance measures in contracts between hospitals and anesthesia groups. We identified clinical quality, efficiency and patient ...