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Hospital Faces Class-action Lawsuit After Hepatitis C Outbreak
A hospital in Washington state is responding to litigation involving exposure to hepatitis C from a nurse. The hospital notified 2,600 patients of a possible exposure.
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Study Finds 66% of Surgeries Lack Consent
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore found that consent forms were missing for 66% of surgical patients, causing one-tenth of procedures to be delayed.
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HFAP Finds Incomplete Consent Forms in Surveys
Consent forms missing one or more elements are a common problem found by surveyors with the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program.
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Consent Process Often Executed Poorly, Creating Risks and Costs
Obtaining patient consent is such a fundamental part of healthcare risk management that it would be easy to assume it is done consistently and properly in most cases, but that is a dangerous assumption.
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Report Examines How Research on Donated Organs Can Be Ethically Performed
Almost 5,000 organs from deceased donors were discarded in 2015 because they were deemed unsuitable for transplantation. Some donated organs are used solely for research because they don’t meet the criteria for transplantation.
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Studies of Insects as Food Now Heading to IRBs
It is still unusual for IRBs to receive protocols involving insect-derived food, but it can and does occur, so they should be prepared.
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Final Common Rule Compliance Date Set
The revised Common Rule has been issued in final form, with IRBs allowed to use three “burden-reducing” provisions to prepare for a Jan. 21, 2019, compliance date.
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Researcher Explains How Data Sets Can Affect Study Privacy
Human subjects research increasingly involves the use of large data sets that allow analysts to drill down to the most specific of details from healthcare records or other databases. This creates challenges in ethical data analysis and information privacy.
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Unresolved Issues With 'Right to Try'
New York University School of Medicine Working Group on Compassionate Use and Pre-Approval Access recently issued a statement that cited unresolved issues on the federal Right to Try law.
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Right to Try Law in Regulatory Limbo
The new Right to Try law has been dogged by implementation questions and remains in regulatory limbo.