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Control charts, quality tools that can help tighten the focus on process variations, increasingly are gaining acceptance among some health care quality professionals. In fact, a number of Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations requirements specifically mention the use of control charts.
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In November, national news outlets reported on Steve Rucker, a nurse at the National Institutes of Health and one of two people to receive an experimental vaccine for Ebola. He did it, he told reporters, because he knew how important vaccines were to areas of the world where medicines and expertise for treating diseases are hard to come by.
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Pfizers Study Participant Compensation Policy
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The newly formed Secretarys Advisory Committee on Human Research Protection has its work cut out committee members already have three subcommittees establishing work plans, and there many more top priorities to be chosen from the federal regulations.
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In recent years, changes in federal law and guidelines on federally funded research have encouraged the inclusion of children as research subjects in clinical drug trials.
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In this prospective, observational study, cook and associates recruited 851 patients who were likely to receive mechanical ventilation (MV) for more than 72 hours.
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Among all factors associated with VRE transmission, VRE acquisition may depend on room contamination, even after extensive cleaning.
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This large, single-center observational study found that 5-year survival of patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation and care at an in-patient hospital-based weaning unit was only 19%.
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This is a personal account of military medicine in the recent conflict. It reflects a view from a relative newcomer to Navy medicineme. I learned many important lessons about providing medical care to the participants and bystanders of war, about the character of those involved in all areas of the conflict, and about myself.
