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Gray Zone Remains Between Clinical Research and Quality Improvement Efforts
The boundary between quality improvement projects and clinical research requiring IRB oversight remains nebulous with finalization of the Common Rule on Jan. 18, 2017. There was some attempt to address this situation in the proposed new rule, but ultimately the solutions were deemed problematic and the issue was left unresolved.
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Small IRB Revises Forms, Updates Policies and Procedures to Obtain FWA and Reach Next Level
A small university's human research protections program overhauled its processes to bring it up to the requirements of the Common Rule and Federalwide Assurance.
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FDA’s Draft Guidance on eRecords Could Have Unintended Consequences
The FDA’s draft guidance on the use of electronic records and electronic signatures encourages systems to improve quality and efficiency, and expands the use of a risk-based approach in validating and establishing audit trails for electronic systems. But it’s the validation part of the proposed guidance that could introduce a new problem.
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Assent Is Not Consent: Children in Clinical Trials Are Not Little Adults
The classic admonition in pediatric medicine is “children are not little adults,” implying in part that you cannot just scale down adult care and treatment. Does this phrase resonate as well in human research trials involving children, particularly around issues of consent for the former and assent for the latter?
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ICMJE Underlines Ethics on Importance of Data Sharing
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors published an editorial in June 2017, saying there is an ethical obligation to share interventional clinical trial data. Beginning July 1, 2018, manuscripts with clinical trial results that are submitted to the committee's journals must contain a data-sharing statement.
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The Epidemiology of Violence: Knowledge Is Power
As hospital violence has become a national issue and the subject of a possible federal regulation, researchers are showing that interventions using the basic epidemiologic principles of measurement and feedback can reduce unit-level violence by patients against healthcare workers.
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Making the Business Case for Safe Patient Handling
Employee health professionals can convince administration that safe patient handling equipment is a good investment if they show how an increasingly immobile patient population affects the physical health of the worker and the fiscal health of the hospital.
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WHO Ready to Use Ebola Vaccine in Congo
The World Health Organization is poised to begin vaccinating healthcare workers with an experimental new Ebola vaccine, but continues to hold off as an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo appeared to be dissipating as this report was filed.
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Profiles in Wellness: Tom Jackson Makes a Difference
When an employee reports an injury or illness, the astute employee health professional is well aware that many other life stresses and work pressures may be simmering just beneath the surface.
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AOHP Not in Favor of OSHA Violence Regulation as Proposed
While emphasizing its support for violence prevention programs to protect healthcare workers, one of the nation’s leading occupational health groups says it does not support promulgation of a new standard by OSHA as currently outlined.