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Article: Vote of no confidence?(FAST FOREWARD)
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- Healthcare Purchasing News
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- September 1, 2009
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One of Hollywood's favorite mantras goes something like this: Good publicity is better than bad publicity, but bad publicity is better than no publicity.
Such egocentric and narcissistic logic may work in Tinsel Town but it woefully wilts in hospital supply chain management circles--specifically those in an industry clobbered by cost overruns and hampered by healthcare reform threats.
But a revealing and thought-provoking survey commissioned and conducted by leading distributor Owens & Minor Inc. and Marquette University, with assistance from the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) and the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses ...