Same-Day vs Different-Day Elective Upper and Lower Endoscopic Procedures by Setting

Same day discharge after elective percutaneous coronary intervention.

Same-day percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a reality with modern interventional equipment and pharmaceutical agents. Elective PCI is rarely an inpatient procedure and is now predominantly considered an outpatient procedure. Approaches to safely manage elective patients through same-day PCI have been well described in the literature and demonstrate no safety signal compared with overni...

Bilateral same-day endoscopic transcanal cartilage tympanoplasty: initial results.

INTRODUCTION Same-day closure of bilateral tympanic membrane perforations is a quick and more comfortable procedure for the patients. However, conventional bilateral same-day tympanoplasty or myringoplasty has been rarely performed because of the theoretical risk of postoperative complications. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the advantages and outcomes of bilateral simultaneous endoscopic cartilage ty...

Six Sigma and Total Quality Management: Different Day, Same Soup?

For decades now Total Quality Management (TQM) has been a dominant management concept for improving competitiveness and financial results. In recent years, however, TQM seems to have lost some of its nimbus with other concepts and approaches such as Lean Enterprise and Six Sigma launched and increasingly in vogue. The aim of this paper is to look at TQM and Six Sigma, their backgrounds, definit...

Same-day diagnosis of tuberculosis by microscopy

Same-day diagnosis of tuberculosis by microscopy: policy statement. Requests for permission to reproduce or translate WHO publications – whether for sale or for noncommercial distribution – should be addressed to WHO Press through the WHO web site The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part ...

Same-day-diagnosis of Tuberculosis by Microscopy