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Health System Nursing Students Follow Up with High-Risk Patients During Pandemic
Health systems and their case management or population health departments could benefit from providing student nurses with clinical experience opportunities, such as calling complex care patients for follow-up. Nursing students, following a script aimed at assessing social determinants of health, contacted the high-risk patients of UC San Diego Health.
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The Balancing Act: Patient Satisfaction and the Hospital Bottom Line
In some ways, it seems that it is nearly impossible to please both the hospital administration and the patients and their families, especially in times of crisis. However, the case manager is in a unique position to bring both along — assuming they have the right tools to do so. Without the help of a wise and invested hospital case manager, the chances of a positive experience for the patient are lower, and hospital spending is more likely to be higher.
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PATH-s Tool Helps Caregivers Understand What Is Needed
Researchers developed a transition care tool that helps caregivers better understand their role and what is expected of them in supporting and caring for patients. A new study on the Preparedness Assessment for the Transition Home After Stroke revealed what caregivers understand about patients’ disease and their own role.
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Take Steps to Prevent Damaging Security Breaches in Survey Studies
IRBs can help investigators create a plan to prevent survey security breaches that can lead to false data and study slowdowns and shutdowns. IRBs should ensure researchers know that if they detect a breach that changes/corrupts data, leads to someone outside the research team accessing data, causes potential harm to participants, or requires a change in procedures or informed consent, it should be reported to the IRB.
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IRBs, Researchers Starting to Recognize Security Breaches of Online Survey Data
Researchers at the University of Houston discovered a survey study had been breached. Large number of surveys poured in, with batches arriving in two-minute intervals. Other signs of a breach included suspicious responses, unusual email addresses and patterns, responses from outside the United States, and missing contact information.
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United Kingdom Begins First COVID-19 Human Challenge Study
Lawmakers, academics, and the research community have hotly debated the ethics of a human challenge study since the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that the United Kingdom has started dosing patients in its human challenge study, some bioethicists say this trial can show vaccine efficacy in ways the larger vaccine trials cannot.
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Study of COVID-19 Vaccine in Pregnant People ‘Too Late’
On Feb. 18, Pfizer and BioNTech announced they would dose about 4,000 healthy pregnant women with the COVID-19 vaccine to evaluate its safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity. Although pregnant people were excluded initially from the COVD-19 trials, research has shown they are at higher risk for more severe disease.
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Coalition Calls for More Federal Investment in Antimicrobial Resistance Prevention
Groups ask Congress for additional money for research, innovation, surveillance, and stewardship.
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The Growing List of Long-Haul COVID-19 Symptoms
Swedish researchers observe rapid heart rate, dizziness in patients months after viral infection.
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Modest Improvements in Mortality Rate Disparities in Rural Areas
Black adults living in rural areas in the United States still are more likely to die from diabetes, high blood pressure compared to white adults.