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When a group of surveyors from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations walked into St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, CA, in January 2006, staff were ready and waiting for them even though the survey was unannounced and completely unexpected.
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The problem of how to handle quality improvement (QI) projects resulted in a research project that explored the intersection between research and quality improvement and ethical oversight.
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Mission creep among IRB work occurs when research institutions and IRBs permit fear of missing something to rule their decisions, an expert says.
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The University of Southern Californias Office for the Protection of Research Subjects provides tips on how to identify human research studies in its booklet, Is Your Project Human Subjects Research? A Guide for Investigators.
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The latest round in the ongoing debate between IRBs and social and behavioral researchers about the scope and effectiveness of IRB review has come in the form of a white paper, Improving the System for Protecting Human Subjects: Counteracting IRB Mission Creep, released late last year by the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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The gum elastic bougie (GEB) is an established tool that has gained increased usage during difficult endotracheal intubation scenarios during the last several years. The GEB is a 60-cm tracheal tube introducer with a smoothly angled tip. If the glottis is not visualized fully during direct laryngoscopy, the GEB may be passed blindly (or with partial visualization) behind the epiglottis.
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Defensive medicine has been defined as clinical care that deviates from sound medical practice primarily as a result of medicolegal liability concerns. In this study, investigators conducted a mail survey in Pennsylvania of 824 physicians from six high-risk specialties including emergency medicine.
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Implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and especially its Privacy Rule, has affected everyone who works in health care. This study from the University of Michigan sought to determine the potential effect of the Privacy Rule on the conduct of clinical research in the form of a telephone interview-based follow-up study.
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Doering and colleagues used a nonrandomized, comparative, longitudinal design to study 72 patients after CABG surgery to investigate the association among depressive symptoms, infections, and impaired wound healing.