-
This years influenza season spread fever and chills across the country, but for hospital employee health professionals, it was just one big headache. A new requirement to report influenza vaccination rates proved time-consuming and challenging for many EHPs.
-
The most dangerous patient handling task is also the most frequent and the most mundane. Nurses and nursing aides reposition patients throughout their shift, and that repositioning often leads to back and shoulder injuries. By focusing on strategies to reduce the risk, Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis demonstrated that those injuries can be reduced dramatically.
-
-
There is predictability in unpredictable violence. Clear warning signs emerge as a patient progresses from unhappy to agitated to aggressive, and health care workers can learn to defuse the situation before an incident turns violent.
-
A novel strain of norovirus is posing new challenges for hospitals and underscores the importance of vigilant hand hygiene and environmental cleaning.
-
IRBs should ask themselves: Are we gatekeepers? Or are we collaborators, navigators, and concierges?
-
A late-August Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) public meeting in Washington, D.C. brought debate from researchers, physicians, and patient advocates on the subject of standard of care research and how IRBs should assess risks in randomized trials.
-
-
IRBs and researchers could improve the informed consent (IC) process by looking at research participants from a different perspective, an expert says.
-
While private companies that conduct human subject research do not fall within the definition of regulated research, the decision whether to entirely forgo approval is not always clear.