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Is ‘Informed Consent’ an Oxymoron?
A study asking readers to consent to a short form containing only the key information about the research resulted in suboptimal comprehension, suggesting participants only skimmed through it or skipped it outright.
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OHRP Holds Workshop on ‘Pervasive’ Data
The unprecedented level of digital data available across an expanding electronic landscape poses complex challenges for IRBs as they attempt to provide ethical insight and ensure participant privacy. Some of these data are collected in clinical care, but the public also is generating data through health monitoring devices, GPS location systems, social media, and information collected and shared on mobile apps.
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Focus on the Differences Between IRBs and HRPPs
As research institutions move toward a single IRB model and more studies are deemed exempt, there is a greater need for all stakeholders to understand the differences between an IRB and a human research protection program.
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Single IRB Common Rule Changes Arrive in January
Academic institutions are grappling with ensuring their IRBs are prepared for the January 2020 deadline to move multisite research to a single IRB. This deadline looms over all policy and procedural changes.
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Provider Stress Can Trickle Down to Affect Patient Safety
The healthcare industry can be stressful for everyone involved, with clinicians sometimes suffering greatly from the workload, time demands, bureaucracy, and the emotional nature of their work. Minimizing stress is important for the health of the caregivers, but also to maintain patient safety. When staff are exhausted, experiencing depersonalization from their work and feeling less effective, they are more likely to fail to follow practices that support high-quality, safer care.
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Ongoing Research Examines Asthma and Depression
Older patients with asthma are an underserved population, and new research will seek answers to why these patients often experience such poor outcomes.
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Telemedicine Program Helps Manage Postpartum Hypertension
A new study shows the benefits of developing a case management program to monitor women with pregnancy-related hypertension. Researchers found evidence of high compliance, retention, and patient satisfaction with a postpartum remote hypertension monitoring protocol.
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Tips for Case Managers to Understand Transgender Patients’ Health Needs
Case managers can help improve healthcare access for transgender patients through proactive steps, including learning more about the terminology related to transgender identity. The first thing case managers should do to improve care of transgender patients is to know the terminology and framework involving a transgender individual.
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Transgender Patients Experience Health Risks From Discrimination
Transgender patients face daunting health challenges due to violence, discrimination, and stress. Case managers can help them navigate barriers to care and find providers who are knowledgeable and friendly to LGBTQ patients.
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MERS Shows 16% Mortality Rate in Healthcare Workers
A recently published analysis of reported MERS cases between December 2016 and January 2019 revealed that 26% of 403 cases in the region were healthcare workers. The case fatality rate was a disturbing 16% among healthcare workers, compared to 34% among patients. Only 1.9% of the healthcare workers infected had comorbidities compared to 71% in other MERS cases over the period.