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AUGS is currently seeking nominations for Vice President, Foundation Vice Chair and 2 board members. Nominations will be solicited via the AUGS Website only. Completed nominations must be submitted by July 14, 2017.
For a nomination to be considered by the Governance Committee, the nominee should have prior involvement or service with AUGS. The nominee should have demonstrated the ability to think strategically, commit to working effectively within a collective decision-making body and have knowledge of or experience with association governance. Visit the AUGS website to read more about the process and to submit your nomination.
Join AUGS in Providence, RI from Oct. 3–7, 2017 for PFD Week 2017! PFD Week is the go-to meeting for healthcare professionals interested in or actively practicing Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery. Register by July 31 to receive the Early Bird Discount! We look forward to seeing you in Providence!
Visit pfdweek.org for more information.
Join us in July for the next offering in the FPMRS Webinar Series:
Perspectives on the Quality Payment Program and Performance Improvement in Urogyn — July 12, 2017 at 7 p.m. Eastern
Speaker: Rebecca Batalden, MD, Juana Hutchinson, MD and Daniel Morgan, MD
Description: This webinar will help members gain an understanding of the new Quality Payment Program (MIPS) and expectations, resources and tools for reporting; help members understand payment models, payor framework, and performance improvement initiatives.
Click here to register!
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In a study of 200+ patients who consumed acid foods with and without Prelief®*:
70% reported a reduction in pain and discomfort with the use of Prelief® when consuming acidic foods
*Bologna, R. Whitmore, K. et al, Philadelphia 1998-1999. Survey of the Effect of Prelief on Food-Related Exacerbation of Interstitial Cystitis Symptoms
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Beginning July 1, 2017, the surgeons in some states will be required by CMS to separately report all post-operative care provided for certain surgical procedures. The CY 2017 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule adopted a data reporting requirement for practitioners furnishing specified global procedures in Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, and Rhode Island. CMS will use reported data, along with other data to establish payment rates under the PFS.
Who Must Report?
All practitioners who are in groups of 10 or more (“practitioner” includes both physicians and non-physician practitioners) who provide 10- or 90- day global services in the nine states listed above are required to report post-operative visits starting July 1, 2017.
CMS created a list of 293 codes using the criteria of procedure codes reported annually by more than 100 practitioners and that are either reported more than 10,000 times or have allowed charges in excess of $10 million annually. To view the list of 293 codes, please visit the CMS website here.
Send questions to the AUGS Coding Committee, here.
The Resident Scholar Award Program is for third-year Ob/Gyn residents and fourth-year urology residents who have an interest in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery. Selected Scholars will attend PFD Week and will receive a $1,000 award to cover travel and hotel accommodations, as well as complimentary registration, including an invitation to the FPMRS Fellows Research Day. All nominees will receive complimentary registration to PFD Week. Submit your nomination by July 21.
The AUGS journal — Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery — invites new reviewers to participate. Currently, the selected manuscript is:
- Volume at First leak is Associated with Sling Failure among Women with Stress Urinary Incontinence
Please visit the FPMRS Open Call Peer Review Project’s page for additional information.
Looking to reach out to your social media audience? Here’s some suggested tweets for this week. Simply click the link to generate a tweet to share with your followers.
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FPMRS
Quantitative and emerging qualitative outcomes highlight that fellows are professional and are largely able to evaluate and care for patients but that achieving independence, surgical skills, and scholarship requires further training.
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Satisfaction with training in FPMRS has improved, but poor confidence performing surgical procedures compared with previous reports demonstrates that improvements in resident training are still needed.
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Ventral rectopexy with sacrocolpo- or hysteropexy is associated with significant improvement in anatomic and subjective outcomes. One in 4 women experienced a perioperative adverse event.
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Completion of vaginal uterosacral ligament suspension using only absorbable suture affords similar anatomic outcomes in the medium term as compared with suspension with additional permanent suture.
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URO Today
Women with IC/BPS and healthy controls underwent neurologic examination that included evaluation of sharp pain sensitivity and vibration in dermatomes T12, L1, L2, S1-5. Peripheral nervous system sensitivity to pressure, vibration, and pinprick were scored using numeric rating scales (NRS). Bilateral comparisons were made with Wilcoxon signed-rank test and comparisons between groups were made by the Mann-Whitney U-test.
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MedPage Today
Acupuncture in the lumbosacral region appears to be an effective treatment for women with stress urinary incontinence that rivals behavioral treatments such as pelvic floor muscle training, researchers found.
In a randomized, participant-blinded, controlled clinical study, the mean decrease in urine leakage was 9.9 g at week 6 in 252 women treated with electroacupuncture, according to Baoyan Liu, MD, of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing, and colleagues.
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URO Today
Women with non-neurogenic refractory OAB who responded to SNM, had a stable program for at least 3 months, with no subsequent OAB treatment were recruited. Enrolled patients completed pre-fMRI validated symptom and quality of life instruments. Stimulus settings were recorded, devices switched off (5-day washout), and instruments repeated. Three fMRI scans with simultaneous SNM stimulation were performed below, at, and above stimulus sensory threshold, using a block design, yielding brain activity maps represented by changes in blood oxygenation level dependence(BOLD).
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FierceHealthcare
Mounting concerns about the impact of electronic health records on patient safety have forced providers and developers to take a deeper look at some of the inherent flaws in their systems.
This year, EHR management topped the ECRI Institute's list of top 10 patient safety concerns, and experts have noted that most hospitals don't have a formal health IT safety committee to address issues within EHRs. Including health IT team members in daily clinical safety huddles, where EHRs are a common concern, is one proven way to quickly and effectively address emerging issues.
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URO Today
Bladder carcinoma cell lines derived from the urothelial stem cells (epithelial or mesenchymal) were used to identify candidate urothelial master transcription factors. Gene expression was measured with quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. From the initial screening of 170 transcription factors (human homologs of Drosophila segmentation genes and known master transcription factors from a database), 28 transcription factors were selected.
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