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Know Older, Medically Complex Patients’ Wishes
Healthcare for the older, chronically ill population poses numerous challenges, but it also suggests an opportunity for case managers to address advance directive and end-of-life questions and needs.
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Vandy-Duke Research Partnership to Put Clinical Trials on Fast Track
Two venerable research institutions are collaborating in a far-reaching partnership that aims to safely speed research, translating trial results to patient interventions in more expedited fashion.
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When IRBs Take a Walk on the Wild Side: The Dark Web
What many IRBs might not know is that researchers increasingly are turning to the “dark web” for data.
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Sample Checklist from Tribal IRB Toolkit
The Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health Tribal IRB Toolkit contains 101 pages, covering all aspects of initiating and running an IRB.
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Research Institution Works With Native American Tribes to Streamline IRB Review
The Havasupai Tribe’s 1994 lawsuit against Arizona State University researchers and the institution illustrated some of the particular problems and challenges related to research involving Native American tribes.
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AAMC Official Discusses Implications of Laws that Target Fetal Tissue Research
Research involving fetal tissue increasingly could be affected by new state regulations.
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NIH Designates LGBT Community as Health Disparity Group
The National Institutes of Health’s recent decision to designate sexual and gender minorities as a “disparity” population for research purposes was welcomed by researchers and advocates for the LGBT community.
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Emerging Candida auris Infects 13 in U.S.
Four patients have died and nine others were infected as the 13 cases of a drug resistant strain of Candida auris that is emerging globally have been reported in the United States by the CDC.1
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‘Clean It Like You Mean It’ Improves Quality, Reduces Costs
A nursing-led program designed to get clinicians to follow best practices at a New York City hospital has significantly reduced the incidence of central line-associated bloodstream infections in neonatal, pediatric, and pediatric cardiac intensive care settings.
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IPs Target HAI Reduction Goals for 2020
Although considerable progress has been made in reducing targeted healthcare-associated infections, the Department of Health and Human Services has set a new baseline and established ambitious new goals for 2020.