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A variety of improvement projects are going on throughout your organization. Some are aimed at improving the efficiency of services and some are undertaken in an effort to reduce adverse events. There are also customer satisfaction and documentation improvement projects. And the list goes on...
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A recent development has put greater emphasis on pressure ulcer prevention in hospitals: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will stop reimbursement for certain hospital-acquired conditions, including pressure ulcers, as part of an update to the hospital inpatient prospective payment system.
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An anonymous survey of investigators, research administrators, and project managers found that principal investigators and co-investigators tend have a less favorable impression of IRBs and IRB staff than do the research assistants and project managers.
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IRB policies and forms often need to be updated and revised as human subjects research rules and regulations evolve.
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When research officials at the University of Virginia of Charlottesville, VA, began to ask what happens to a study once it's approved by the IRB, the answer became a new program: a post-IRB approval compliance monitoring and education program.
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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.
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When research calls for recruiting patients with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, it's often hard to know whether patients would want to participate had they been able to make the decision themselves.
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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.