Surgical Procedures, Elective - Legislation & jurisprudence
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Impact of US state government regulation on patient access to elective surgical care.

29 Sep 2008 PURPOSE: Rising health care costs in the United States have led to government regulation of services via a Certificate of Need (CON) law in many states. Such regulation may decrease access to elective surgical procedures. This study describes the ... Read more...

Health care reform: pediatric elective surgery payer mix and utilization under Tenncare managed competition.

29 Sep 2008 Managed care decreases reimbursement for surgical referral care and may decrease access for elective procedures. This study seeks to determine the impact of Medicaid managed competition on elective pediatric otolaryngology surgery. DESIGN AND ... Read more...

Consent: luck or law?

30 Aug 2007 INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to identify whether clinicians are obtaining a valid consent for surgery, and ascertain the parents' perception of parental responsibility when giving consent for their children. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Adults ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Surgical Procedures, Elective - Legislation & jurisprudence'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• States explore shared decision making. 22 Jun 2009
• [About agreements to appoint a representative of chief physicians] 19 Nov 2008
• Impact of US state government regulation on patient access to elective surgical care. 29 Sep 2008
• Health care reform: pediatric elective surgery payer mix and utilization under Tenncare managed competition. 29 Sep 2008
• CMS expands list of hospital medical mistakes it will not cover. 13 Sep 2008
• Somatechnics of medico-legal taxonomies: elective amputation and transableism. 9 Jul 2008
• [What to do when the head physician as unavailable?] 29 Jun 2008
• Consent: luck or law? 30 Aug 2007
• Informed consent for elective surgery--what is best practice? 30 Jan 2007
• The medical-legal aspects of informed consent in orthopaedic surgery. 30 Oct 2005
• Informed consent for vascular intervention. 24 Aug 2005
• Kidneys for cash and egg safaris--can we allow 'transplant tourism' to flourish in South Africa? 30 Dec 2004
• [Surgery and transfusion in Jehovah's witness patient. Medical legal review] 30 May 2004
• ACOG committee opinion. Surgery and patient choice: the ethics of decision making. Number 289, November 2003. 30 Jan 2004
• [Elective procedures/inpatient trauma surgical procedures] 30 Jan 2003
• Safety of ambulatory surgery. 29 Nov 2001

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Technical information about 'Surgical Procedures, Elective'

Definition: Surgery which could be postponed or not done at all without danger to the patient. Elective surgery includes procedures to correct non-life-threatening medical problems as well as to alleviate conditions causing psychological stress or other potential risk to patients, e.g., cosmetic or contraceptive surgery.

Descriptor UI: D017558

Alternative terms: Surgical Procedures, Elective; Procedures, Elective Surgical; Elective Surgical Procedures; Procedure, Elective Surgical; Surgical Procedure, Elective; Elective Surgical Procedure;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; rehabilitation; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics;

Tree Number: E04.772;

History Note: 98(94)

Technical Notes: do not use /util except by MeSH definition; DF: SURG PROCEDURES ELECTIVE