Articles Tagged With: research
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New Ethical Guidance for Research on Refugee Populations
The federal government recognizes vulnerable and marginalized populations, such as prisoners and children, in research and has created special protection guidelines for investigators to follow when working with these populations. However, refugee populations do not have specific special protections.
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LGBTQ+ Community Often Overlooked in Reproductive Health Research
Contraceptive Technology Update (CTU) asked Melissa Ertl, PhD, assistant professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in Minneapolis, about her new research paper on health equity and research with people in the LGBTQ+ community.
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Medical Students Feel Unprepared to Manage Financial Conflicts
Many medical students feel inadequately prepared to avoid negative influence from industry and feel inadequately educated on conflicts of interest, a recent study found.
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Ethical Concerns for Study Participants with Opioid Use Disorder
Individuals with opioid use disorder are a vulnerable population who face some unique risks when participating in research.
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Unique Ethical Concerns if Research Involves the Recently Deceased
Research on recently deceased humans is important to conduct, but there are many challenging ethical considerations.
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Fraudulent ‘Participants’ Are Ethical Concern — Even in Qualitative Studies
Researchers need to be vigilant in identifying suspicious responses in study samples.
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Education – and an EMR Tab – Boosts Advance Care Planning
Educating patients on advance care planning (ACP) and documenting this education is within the scope of nursing. This article outlines a quality improvement project to educate nurses on the importance of ACP.
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Embarking on Case Management Research
As case managers go about their days, they are constantly discovering and solving problems, often without even realizing it. Part of the role is to troubleshoot issues with discharge, utilization management, and more — but once the issue is resolved, that often is the end of it. However, when case managers seek solutions for their problems, they are engaging in research.
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APIC Research Agenda Includes Race and HAIs
With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic exposing widespread inequities and deep-set systemic racism in healthcare, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology is planning research to address some of these critical issues, including one proposal to design a study to determine if patients of color or non-white ethnicity are at greater risk of acquiring healthcare-associated infections.
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Infectious Disease Experts Sound Alarm on True Toll of RSV
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is something of a contradiction: The leading cause of hospitalization of infants in the United States (58,000 annually) is largely unappreciated beyond the pediatric population. In what essentially is a hidden seasonal epidemic, RSV causes 177,000 hospitalizations and 14,000 deaths annually in the United States in those age 65 years and older.