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An IRB process improvement project reduced the protocol modification time by half. The change required the IRB chairs to give up some of their responsibilities and put these new responsibilities on the IRB coordinators.
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The results of a recent study indicate potential research participants are open to alternative vaccine trial designs, including challenge trials in which participants are exposed to COVID-19.
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As of Jan. 1, 2022, accredited facilities must educate, train, monitor, and assess more often.
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Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental health problem worldwide. As practicing emergency physicians know, anxiety is common in emergency department patients.
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How would one interpret the ECG in the figure, obtained in the ED from a middle-aged man with new chest pain?
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The FDA has approved a new, but controversial, treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
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By shortening the duration of antibiotic therapy, a procalcitonin-guided protocol decreased the rate of infection-associated adverse effects, decreased costs, and reduced mortality in patients with sepsis.
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Children with asthma showed improved small airway mechanics following indoor filtration of particulates (2.5 µm and greater) using high-efficiency particulate air filtration devices.
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The WHO Solidarity Trial Consortium found remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir, and interferon regimens produced “little or no effect” on relevant outcomes.
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This case illustrates the standard of causation used in wrongful death and other actions alleging a patient’s injuries were caused by a doctor’s or hospital’s negligence. In this case, the expert essentially testified to several actions by the hospital and attending physician that increased the risk of injury to the patient, but did not specifically conclude any one or more of those allegedly negligent actions actually caused the patient’s death.