Editor's Note To help teams develop and grow the confidence to demonstrate compliance with infection prevention practices during survey, focus on building practice-based consistency, an infection control consultant recently advised in an article published in the November/December issue of Healthcare Hygiene Magazine. The expert discussed infection control habits that healthcare…
Editor's Note Being able to motivate staff members is a leadership imperative. Often, it’s the advice and lessons received from mentors that help shape a leader’s approach. Several healthcare executives recently shared in a November 26 article published in Becker’s Hospital Review about what lessons have inspired them to lead…
Editor's Note A surgeon’s cognitive biases, such as those influencing memory and information processing, were directly associated with surgical complications and patient harm, including death. These findings from a systematic review published in the December issue of Annals of Surgery. Among 21 reviewed studies, 38 cognitive biases and heuristics (mental…
Editor's Note Viral misinformation, novel technologies, fears of litigation, and productivity metrics have crippled physicians' sense of well-being, according to a professor of medicine and a pulmonologist in an opinion article published November 16 in MedPage Today. He cited data on burnout noting that almost half of all physicians experience…
Editor's Note Delayed muscle healing and preoperative muscle atrophy, such as in patients with osteoporosis can negatively affect total joint replacement surgery. It can increase the risk of complications, prolong recovery, and impair long-term function. But a new study published online in Current Biology shares how researchers at Cincinnati Children’s…
Editor's Note The US government has launched a new Autonomous Interventions and Robotics (AIR) program to develop autonomous robotic systems that can improve access to remote surgical interventions for thrombectomy in stroke patients and other time-sensitive procedures that not every patient has adequate and immediate access to, according to a…
Editor's Note Surgical procedures can cause substantial financial hardship for working-aged individuals in the US, particularly those with private insurance or who are uninsured. In contrast, Medicaid enrollees were protected against increases in financial hardship after surgical procedures, according to an original investigation in JAMA published online November 19. These…
Editor's Note Ethiopia has confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD), a severe viral hemorrhagic illness related to Ebola. Infection prevention teams are encouraged to establish or revisit their facility’s MVD readiness plans now, according to a November 19 email communication from APIC. This MVD outbreak has involved 9…
Rockville, MD — November 20, 2025 — OR Manager, a longstanding authority for perioperative leadership insight that serves a community of more than 100,000 professionals, is pleased to announce that Joe Paone has joined the team as its new Content Director. A veteran B2B healthcare journalist with deep experience covering perioperative care,…
Editor's Note Almost half of Americans shared concerns that they won’t be able to afford necessary healthcare in the coming year, and 20% of Americans reported that they or someone they live with couldn’t pay for prescription medications, according to findings from the State of the States 2025: Insights on…
