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Medical and research institutions have a great deal more to fear these days from aninadvertent release of protected health information (PHI).
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Clinical trial (CT) sites and principal investigators can improve their budget cash flow by spending more upfront time on the budgeting process before signing contracts with sponsors.
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Clinical study sites are carrying a greater part of the compliance burden these days as sponsors increasingly are shifting responsibilities their way such as the task of making source documents, an expert says.
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Research institutions need a best practice plan for preventing and handling regulatory issues whether they have 50 or 500 new studies a year.
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Hospital ethics committees could clarify and improve the way they handle issues involving life support in the intensive care unit (ICU) if they brought more nuance to any definition of the word "futile," an expert says.
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President Obama's administration reversed its decision to revise a Medicare regulation to include paying physicians to discuss good advance care planning with patients.
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Hospital ethics boards seeking a solution for efficiently and effectively documenting and assessing ethics consultation work could find a best practice in the ethics consultation web (ECWeb) program developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Washington, DC, experts say.
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Hospitals might improve their ethics consultation processes if they design and use a brief ethics family assessment tool to determine families' and patients' values, two ethicists say.