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El Camino Surgery Center in Mountain View, CA, always has scored high in all the categories of the study on Knee Arthroscopy with Meniscectomy benchmark study by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care's Institute for Quality Improvement. However, a review of their 2004 results showed that the center's cost per case was high, reports Lisa Cooper, RN, CNOR, clinical director for the surgery center and a speaker at the most recent annual meeting of the Federated Ambulatory Surgery Association.
"We were surprised that we were one of the highest cost study participants, and we decided to put together a cost study team to look at …
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