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The flu vaccine is very effective for older children and adults, aged 10 to 49 years, but may be less effective than believed for the population overall, according to two recent studies.
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Even in the dead of winter, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI, serves up freshly picked vegetables and sells produce in a hospital-based farmer's market. It is locally grown in a "hoop house" on the hospital's own farm.
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The push for sharps safety has moved out of the hospital into outpatient facilities. Safety experts are urging physician offices, urgent care clinics, ambulatory surgery centers and others to boost their compliance with the Bloodborne Pathogens Standard. And in some states, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is backing that up with random inspections.
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Hospitals geared up for their annual influenza immunization campaigns this fall with a greater emphasis on mandatory policies to achieve the highest possible coverage of employees. An advisory from the American Hospital Association gave a push toward mandatory vaccination of health care workers.
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Almost three in four (71%) of hospital-based health care workers received their flu vaccine last year, showing a sustained commitment to vaccination even after the pandemic subsided, according to a survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The proposed changes to the Common Rule address an issue that clinical trial organizations have raised since HIPAA's privacy provisions went into effect, but it appears to make the situation even more difficult, some experts say in comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Be prepared' is a clinical trial coordinator's best practice motto. This means finding or creating templates that will facilitate faster, more efficient, and better quality data collection.
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Everyone in the clinical research industry has heard the dismal statistic of how one out of five clinical trial sites never enroll a single patient. Many physicians have been drawn to doing a study in addition to their fulltime clinical practice, and they often decide to give this up after one or two trials.
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In Caroline Knight's 20 years of experience, working as a research coordinator, the size of informed consent forms has grown from an average of four pages to about 18 pages. In her estimation, the additional pages have not made it easier to fully inform potential research participants of what to expect in a clinical trial.