Gap of Surgical Fees between Specialties in our Hospital

Specialties: missing in our healthcare reform strategies?

G iven the amount of frenetic healthcare reform preparation occurring with accountable care organizations (ACOs), patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs), and bundling demonstrations, are we overlooking—or quietly ignoring— medical and surgical specialists and subspecialists in our planning? It may seem to specialists that they are off the healthcare radar screen for now. Yes, a few medical home...

Isolation Hospital Consultants' Fees

Assessment of operative times of multiple surgical specialties in a public university hospital

Objective To evaluate the indicators duration of anesthesia, operative time and time patients stay in the operating rooms of different surgical specialties at a public university hospital. Methods It was done by a descriptive cross-sectional study based on the operating room database. The following stages were measured: duration of anesthesia, procedure time and patient length of stay in the ...

Prevalence of dry eye syndrome in residents of surgical specialties

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and severity of dry eye syndrome in a group of Mexican residents of different surgical specialties. METHODS A cross-sectional descriptive study where the residents were studied using the Ocular Surface Disease Index, together with diagnostic tests for dry eye syndrome, such as tear breakup time, Oxford Schema, Schirmer's test I,...

ulcerative colitis in infancy, our surgical results

background/purpose: ulcerative colitis(uc)  is a chronic, idiopathic, destructive disorder of colon. the incidence of uc peaks in the age group of15 to 25,and only 1% are infantile. despite initial medical treatment, in refractory cases, colectomy is needed. there are few studies regard surgical results in infancy with uc. methods:in this retrospective study we reviewed infants with ulcerative ...