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Early in the morning on Easter Sunday, a man strode past the weapons screening area of Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles and, without warning, began stabbing a nurse in the torso.
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Stress triggers include job insecurity, hostile workplace in health care support positions. Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and other leading causes of death, and now a new study has found that some hospital workers have significantly higher risk of developing the disease.
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Thanks to the rise in private equity ownership, the number of independent IRBs may be shrinking, but the number of services they offer is greatly expanding.
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As the use of central IRBs grows nationally, these models are increasing consistency in IRB review, but they also are causing some confusion for institutional IRBs.
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While consolidating the industry may not have been the goal of independent IRBs, the number of small and family owned IRBs continues to shrink.
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When research institutions and their IRBs work with centralized IRBs, questions arise about which board handles which responsibilities.
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RB, FDA, IBC, RAC, DSMB just a few of the alphabet soup organizations and regulatory body steps a researcher must go through to get a protocol written, reviewed, and approved. This can lead researchers to burnout dubbed by some at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as regulatory fatigue syndrome.
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Working with different central IRBs and using different models has created some confusion for local IRBs.
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The Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) is moving in some new directions as Elyse I. Summers, JD, president and chief executive officer, celebrates her first anniversary with the organization.