The Manual for Anesthesia Department Organization and Management (MADOM) has been one of ASA’s most venerable resources. First developed in the 1980s, MADOM was a compendium of expert advice on how to set up and lead an anesthesia practice. The MADOM included a variety of materials ranging from how to establish a billing compliance program to how to prepare the group for a mass casualty event. Content was developed and periodically updated by the Committee on Quality Management & Departmental Administration (QMDA), and the final product – a book of several hundred pages – was available to ASA members at a nominal price.
While the content of MADOM was annually updated, the formatting was not. For instance, practice parameters were sometimes included in former hard copy editions; today, thousands of members download those same practice parameters in just seconds from the ASA website. MADOM has slowly faded from being a...
