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ED physicians should not disclose a patient's HIV status, except when there is a legal mandate to do so and even in this case, this is preferably done through a third party, such as a public health official, advises Matthew Rice, MD, JD, FACEP, an ED physician with Northwest Emergency Physicians of TEAMHealth in Federal Way, WA.
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A man with chest pain tells your ED physician that he uses cocaine and is HIV-positive, then asks the physician not to tell his girlfriend who is about to enter the room.
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[Editor's note: This column addresses readers' questions about the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). If you have a question you'd like answered, contact Steve Lewis, Editor, ED Management, Atlanta. Phone: (770) 442-9805. Fax: (770) 664-8557. E-mail:
[email protected].]
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Recently, a patient at Northwest Medical Center in Tucson, AZ, was diagnosed with measles and ordered into isolation by her physician, but remained unisolated in the ED for more than 12 hours.
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Despite increasing demand for privacy surrounding health information, North American hospitals lag behind European counterparts when it comes to one of the most visible impediments to privacy — multi-bed hospital rooms.
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued new guidance for providers on talking about patients' health information with and in the presence of other parties — with an emphasis on what can be discussed.
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Accreditation for an academic research institution is a time-consuming and difficult process for the research office and the institution's IRB office. But for a small, private research organization, the task is Herculean.
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IRB Advisor: Dr. Marjorie Speers, would you please explain how AAHRPP accreditation requirements work with regard to institutions that are seeking accreditation and have plans to use foreign IRBs for a multi-site study that includes clinical trials located in other countries? Foreign countries hosting clinical trials often require a local board to review the study.
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Barbara Bierer, MD, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the senior vice president for research and the director of faculty development and diversity at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, is the new chair of the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP).
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People participating in pain research report having complex combinations of reasons for enrolling part altruism, part seeking new treatments, part simply having their pain understood and taken seriously.