-
Research institutions that plan to use the teach-back method as part of their informed consent process should make certain there is adequate training for clinical trial professionals. One research site has found that simulations work best for this purpose.
-
Despite evidence suggesting that tobacco use can hamper cancer treatments, patients with cancer who enter clinical trials are rarely asked about their use of tobacco, according to a recent study.
-
Robert Klitzman's survey of IRB chairs, members and administrators revealed a number of ideas that can be adopted by other institutions that want to improve relations with their investigators.
-
The human subjects protection field continues to search for ways to improve the informed consent (IC) process. IRB professionals often express concern that potential research participants do not understand their rights or the true risks and benefits of a study, although they might sign the IC forms and say they have no questions.
-
Most IRB directors or chairs can recount stories about their tensions with investigators. All boards must balance the institution's need to protect subjects with investigators' concerns about unduly hampering their research.
-
In general, patients think of a screening test as a good thing, says Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, director of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, NY. "Patients aapproach this thinking that it is better to test than not test, and doctors have to be aware of that bias," he says.
-
Is there clear and convincing evidence that an individual has no pain that would justify a prescription analgesic and is, therefore, seeking medication solely because of an addictive disorder, recreational use, or with the intent of diverting it to others?
-
If a provider tells patients they might have been exposed to a blood-borne pathogen when they actually weren't, then the patients worried needlessly when there was no actual health risk.
-
Access to the electronic health record (EHR) of an individual patient as well as what the person looking at the record does with that information remain concerns for all professionals and institutions involved in patient care.
-
At the start of leading an 18-month pilot project to explore organ donation for patients who died in the emergency department (ED) at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Clifton W. Callaway, MD, believed the team was "creating, in reality, what the general public already thought existed."