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Creating an Optimal Research Training and Mentoring Program
A nine-year IRB chair veteran and a medical school’s associate dean identified gaps in their institution’s human research protection education. They noticed that online training was fine for general information, but came up short when investigators were struggling with specific protocol issues.
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IRB Has Variety of Self-Assessment, Staff Assessment Tools
An Indiana research compliance program found that IRB staff and board assessments help keep the program on track and running well.
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Researcher: Human Infection Trials for Zika Could Be Safely Performed
It sounds counterintuitive, but one of the main arguments for getting a Zika virus vaccine into human trials is that as susceptible people become immune through prior infection, it will be harder to test vaccine efficacy in a large population.
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NIH Ethics Panel Vetoes Zika Human Infection Trials
While there are reports of various Zika vaccine trials proceeding, one the most promising methods to quickly and accurately measure vaccine efficacy has come to a full stop.
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Proposed Changes to CMS Nursing CoPs
Hospitals avoid fines for deficiencies when nurses are updated on the CMS nursing chapter.
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Traumatic Amputations
Traumatic amputations can be extremely debilitating injuries that have long-term functional and psychological outcomes. The authors review traumatic amputations, diagnostic evaluation, and management.
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NQF Suggests Ways to Improve Federal Measure Sets
The National Quality Forum’s (NQF) Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) in Washington, DC, recommends significant improvements to measure sets used in federal programs, saying the changes would increase the effect on quality improvement while reducing burdens on providers.
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Lower Mortality During TJC Surveys
A survey by The Joint Commission (TJC) may be stressful for administrators, but it can be good for patient outcomes. Recent research suggests that patients admitted to the hospital during an unannounced TJC survey have lower 30-day mortality rates than those patients admitted three weeks before or after the unannounced survey.
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Hospital Grades May Emphasize Wrong Factors
The Leapfrog grading system may put too much weight on the wrong factors, according to a study published in the journal Medical Care by researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Thus, hospitals with less than stellar scores on even one or two issues might be better off not participating in the system, researchers say.
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NJ Reports Savings, Safety Gains with QI
New Jersey’s hospitals and health systems averted 77,342 cases of patient harm and saved $641 million in healthcare costs between 2012 and 2016 by participating in a quality improvement program with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.