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Articles in August, 2004 issue of AORN Journal

• Study confirms belief that laughter is the best medicine
• 2003 Ad
  by Susan Bakewell
• New Century Healthcare: Strategies for Providers, Purchasers, and Plans
  by Fran Koch
• 10 years ago in the AORN Journal
• Improving surgical wound classification—why it matters
  by Lynn Devaney
• Regional coordination key to bioterrorism preparedness
• Regulating first assistants
  by Frederick P. Franko
• Opportunities from the Center for Perioperative Education
• Heart disease risk factors may age arteries
• Learning from sentinel event statistics
  by Suzanne C. Beyea
• Contemporary Health Policy
  by C.J. Welter
• Hand scrub products—performance requirements: versus clinical relevance
  by Daryl S. Paulson
• Video game play may increase laparoscopic proficiency
• Bacteria bound to cloth; glucoprotamin; toluidine blue O; surgical helmets versus filtering masks
  by George Allen
• 30 years ago in the AORN Journal
• Ulcerative colitis—diagnosis and surgical treatment
  by Patricia Stein
• Negligence cases concerning positioning injuries
  by Ellen K. Murphy
• Keeping the People Who Keep You in Business: 24 Ways to Hang On to Your Most Valuable Talent
  by Susan S. Phillips
• Medical injuries common among children in hospitals
• Clinical alarm systems testing—a program assessment model
  by Wesley Richardson
• Clinical judgments minimize infant hospitalizations
• 40 years ago in the AORN Journal
• Alternative treatment for enlarged prostate shows promise
• Life expectancy for patients with Alzheimer's disease
• Good Carbohydrate Revolution
  by Lisa Gay
• Developing a central sterile surgical instrument technician program
  by Marie Garner
• Improving patient safety—how can information technology help?
  by Drew Cobb
• Women with overactive bladder are less sexually active
• 20 years ago in the AORN Journal
• Representing our value
  by William J. Duffy
• Americans far more likely than Europeans to be obese
• Time for unused sterile setups; maintaining instrument count sheets; gowning off back tables; plants in the OR; count discrepancies
  by Carol Petersen
• Hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery easier on patients
• Copyright and the AORN Journal
  by Nancy J. Girard
• Effect of music on vital signs and postoperative pain
  by Eleni Ikonomidou
• Risky behaviors among high school students decreasing
• Early screening for vision problems recommended