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Bongaard B. Using acupuncture for headache treatment: Getting the point! 2008;11:49-52.
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Greenfield RH. “When in China…” – Berberine and diabetes. 2008;11:57-58.
Greenfield RH. Ouch! Priorities and acute pancreatitis. 2008;11:58-59.
Greenfield RH. Stress, childhood illness and immunity. 2008;11:59-60.
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A variety of improvement projects are going on throughout your organization. Some are aimed at improving the efficiency of services and some are undertaken in an effort to reduce adverse events. There are also customer satisfaction and documentation improvement projects. And the list goes on...
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A recent development has put greater emphasis on pressure ulcer prevention in hospitals: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will stop reimbursement for certain hospital-acquired conditions, including pressure ulcers, as part of an update to the hospital inpatient prospective payment system.
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An anonymous survey of investigators, research administrators, and project managers found that principal investigators and co-investigators tend have a less favorable impression of IRBs and IRB staff than do the research assistants and project managers.
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IRB policies and forms often need to be updated and revised as human subjects research rules and regulations evolve.
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When research officials at the University of Virginia of Charlottesville, VA, began to ask what happens to a study once it's approved by the IRB, the answer became a new program: a post-IRB approval compliance monitoring and education program.