When an IRB redesigns its electronic submission system, it's the right time to consider redesigning the IRB's workflow as well, some experts say.
Compared to cancer patients who were never married, divorced, widowed, or separated, married patients are significantly more likely to present at an earlier stage, undergo therapy with definitive or curative intent, and live longer among each of the 10 most common cancers killers in the United States.
When most people talk about asking patients about their care, they think of it in terms of a post-visit satisfaction survey.
The rapid growth of image-guided surgery has revolutionized procedures and reduced recovery time for patients, but it has increased risks of radiation exposure to the operating room staff.
You join a collaborative because you want access to data and ideas. Together you might find something out that individually you could not. That's the theory. And it works.
It's doubtful that anyone goes into the Baldrige process looking for a site visit the first year.