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In a series of questionable decisions, a California federal court allowed a plaintiff to bring a "failure-to-screen" claim under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) against a hospital for what was really an ordinary state malpractice claim for "failure to diagnose," and then held that California's $250,000 damages cap wouldn't apply because the EMTALA claim was not a "professional negligence" claim as contemplated by the state's tort reform law - the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA).
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The dangers of sleep deprivation and fatigue can no longer be ignored.
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You are working one evening, and the EMS dispatch center calls. The ambulance is bringing in a 35-year-old male motor vehicle collision victim who is unresponsive and has a BP of 80 palpable. So, what happens next in your emergency department? Who do you assemble? What equipment do you gather? Do you call the blood bank and the operating room?
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It's the little details that matter in the informed consent process.
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IRB professionals responding to IRB Advisor's 2008 Salary Survey continue to report modest salary increases and larger staffs over the previous year. But they worry that raises aren't keeping up with increasing workloads and that they and their staffs are burning out.
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A series of two-day regional conferences will be held next year focusing on Food and Drug Administration clinical trails requirements, regulations and compliance issues.
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One strategy that helped a Lexington, KY, university research institution achieve full accreditation was its development of IRB approval checklists.
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Honest broker systems which process data and specimens for research by removing identifiers that otherwise would compromise patient privacy have been touted as a smart way to encourage research while still protecting patient privacy as required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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Haverford College of Haverford, PA, has spent more than a year dealing with a problem that IRBs do everything they can to avoid: a research noncompliance investigation requested by the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP).