Reducing lost drug charges by monitoring computer-generated interdepartmental transfers.

The use of computerized interdepartmental transfer records to identify lost drug charges and a program to capture those charges are described. All charges for medications ordered on floor-stock requisitions for the operating room and various intensive-care units in a 400-bed hospital were entered into the pharmacy's computer. Medications ordered on requisitions that were not stamped with a specific patient's name were charged to the patient-care unit using the computer's interdepartmental transfer program.

Late complications of laparoscopic sterilization, II.

This paper is the continuation of a study initially reported before the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1976. The paper compares a group of 495 patients sterilized by a coagulation and division technique with 3-mm forceps and minimal tissue destruction with a previously reported group of 517 patients who underwent tubal sterilization by coagulation and resection with a 5-mm Palmer drill forceps and marked tissue destruction. The surgery in both groups was performed solely by the author, and the figures reported pertain to those complications occurring in equal postoperative time spans.