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During an October 2003 survey conducted at Fort Lauderdale, FL-based Broward General Medical Center by The Joint Commission, surveyors recommended improvements with the organization's pediatric sedation process. In particular, they found fault with the administration of sedation for outpatient diagnostic procedures.
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Nearly half (43%) of hospitals surveyed in the first half of 2007 were not compliant with The Joint Commission's standard requiring medications be properly and safely stored, and 20% were non-compliant with the requirement for medication orders to be written clearly and transcribed accurately.
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Have you ever presented physicians with carefully analyzed data to demonstrate areas in need of improvement and then discover that your findings are disputed?
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In a dramatic effort to expand its quality program for hospital inpatient services in fiscal year 2009, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed the addition of 43 new quality measures for which hospitals will have to report data in order to receive the full annual payment update for their services.
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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%.
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IRBs and investigators continually look for ways to improve the informed consent (IC) process. One novel idea is to create an interactive informed consent program that serves a dual purpose of providing education to patients and trial participants.
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The National Cancer Institute (NCI) of Bethesda, MD, decided to address a deficit in quality of biospecimens collected for research purposes with the recent publication of improved recommendations.
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When IRBs approve a clinical trial site's informed consent documents, they often have no way of knowing how the informed consent process is played out at the site.