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In an attempt to clarify Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regulations, the federal Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) has issued an update to its 2000 guidance on research involving prisoners.
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The main role of a study coordinator is to act as a patient advocate, yet still maintain the integrity and progress of the trial, says Laurie Czaplewski, RN, BSN, clinical trial coordinator with the Mayo Alliance for Clinical Trials in Rochester, MN.
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Clinical trial coordinators can easily become overwhelmed by the myriad tasks they must perform during the studys duration. But the key to keeping a drug or device trial or other research study moving is to do as much advance preparation as possible, say experts.
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Dissatisfied patients. Longer wait times. Patients being treated in the hallways.
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In your ED, the color-coded Broselow Pediatric Emergency Tape, a length-based measuring tape that accurately estimates a childs weight, is probably a familiar sight. But are you using the tape correctly?
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It has happened to everyone. A quality improvement (QI) project team is formed to achieve an improvement goal, and the group gets sidetracked on the action plan. This can happen when members of the team dont share the same sense of clarity around the problem.
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Editors note: This column is a regular feature in Hospital Peer Review profiling a facility that recently has been surveyed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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Are you relieved to find that six of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations seven new National Patient Safety Goals are much the same as for 2003? If so, you should think again.
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If you want to improve your patient satisfaction ratings, dont start by looking at how happy your patients are. Start by looking at satisfaction levels among your staff. Thats the advice from an emergency department (ED) manager who can boast of patient satisfaction scores in the 99th percentile nationwide.