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Articles in Nov, 2004 issue of Healthcare Purchasing News

• AHRMM launches 2004 Performance Indicators Study
• OR salary increases linked to longevity, experience and age
  by Jeannie Akridge
• Exam/procedure table
• Storage cabinet
• Microsurgical instrument trays
• Efforts to mandate CS certification gain momentum
• Med/surg/or equipment
• Medicare proposes coverage for more implanted heart devices
• Guidant technology for less-invasive coronary bypass surgery
• Alexandria Hospital to create a virtual ICU
• Topical skin anesthesia
• Sharps containers
• Rising to the challenge: prescription refills in Iraq
  by Greta L. Bennett
• Administrative products/services
• Fast stats
• Medicare expands PET coverage for Alzheimer's
• Updated guidelines address hemodynamic support of sepsis
• Speed Oven
• Wheelchair scale
• A solution that sticks: using labels to promote compliance, safety, and cost savings
  by Ben Perry
• Healthcare group purchasing milestones in history
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• EPA releases airline water testing results
• Obesity surgery cures diabetes, other conditions
• New housekeeping practices help staff cut dirt, waste, infection
  by Julie E. Williamson
• ERCP endoscope devices
• X-ray film illuminators
• The great GPO debate
  by Tom Hirzel
• Med/surg/OR supplies
• Where's the justice league when you need it?
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• CMS, JCAHO publish standard definitions for quality measures
• MRSA reaching out into the community
• Storage units
• Biological indicator
• Finding gloves that improve infection control, hand health and the bottom-line
  by Tom Berry
• Oh what tangled Web we read …
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• HIBCC announces board and committee appointments
• FDA approves device to fight abdominal aortic aneurysms
• FDA clears first implantable medical device treatment for sleep apnea
• Identification bands
• Vitamin E exam gloves
• Top issues facing the hospital supply chain today
  by Ed Stark
• Facility & capital equipment
• 500 patients may have been exposed to CJD
• Premier launches Executive Scorecard for the Environment
• Hand-hygiene: thumbs up for importance, thumbs down for implementation
  by Susan Cantrell
• Taggants
• Warming therapy
• Disposing of unused peracetic acid canisters; flash sterilization controversy
  by Ray Taurasi
• Associations
• Medicare assesses weight loss surgery coverage
• Financials stalling outbreak of disaster planning efforts: what's good for the bottom line means trouble for the front line
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• International trends in sharps injury protection
  by Terry Grimmond
• Shielding products
• Furniture systems
• Worth repeating
• Trade groups
• AHRMM election results for 2004 Board of Directors
• Rest assured: hospital beds are getting smarter
  by Jeannie Akridge
• EMS products
• Bariatric Geri Chair
• Transparent absorbent wound dressing
• Cost benchmarking
  by Lynn James Everard
• Sterile processing & infection control
• Pfizer to acquire Purell from GOJO
• Senate subcommittee turns over trump card on GPO dealings: bill introduction nothing more than a foregone conclusion
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• Antiseptic skin prep: bulk solutions vs. sterile single-use applications
  by Catherine M. Jarrell
• Neonatal catheter securement device
• Surgical gowns
• Financing healthcare capital expenditures
  by Bill Zadrozny
• Regulatory agencies