The National Cancer Institute of Bethesda, MD, decided to address a deficit in quality of biospecimens collected for research purposes with the recent publication of improved recommendations.
The health care community has long endorsed staff and patients speaking up when necessary to protect patient safety, but in the heat of the moment, a staff member can be intimidated by superiors and fearful of rocking the boat.
The health care industry is complex. And to overcome that complexity, we hear much more today about openness and transparency, but are these efforts getting people to speak up?
A new consortium of research institutions is seeking to transform the process of translational research, in hopes of progressing more efficiently from scientific breakthrough to patient treatment.
Unfortunately, we know that even when an intervention is proven to be efficacious and applicable, it's not always applied," says Catarina Kiefe, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and biostatistics, and director of preventive medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, one of 14 new 2008 members of the CTSA consortium.
In this digital age, a breach of personal data about clients or customers is the nightmare scenario for any business, conjuring specters of identity theft and public relations woes.
At St. Joseph's PeaceHealth in Bellingham, WA, a former patient has been sitting on the facility's medical executive committee for more than a year.
The professionals in the addiction treatment services team at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore have created an approach for treating methadone patients, called the motivated stepped care (MSC) model, which has decreased positive urine tests from 74% to 54% and increased group counseling attendance from 14% to 65%.
