10 years ago in the AORN Journal

AORN Journal, Feb, 2007

The AORN President reports that 74% of US workers participate in managed health care plans. * The "Editorial" discusses the Pew Health Professions Commission report on health care workforce regulation. The report urges policy makers to consider making wide-ranging reforms to the US health care regulatory system to synchronize it with recent changes in health care.

* In "Clinical Issues," a reader asks whether existing OR policies and procedures for the removal of jewelry for surgical procedures also apply to patients who have body piercings. * A news item details components of a proposed US Department of Health and Human Services draft guideline for xenotrans-plantation (ie, the transplantation of animal organs into humans).