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Reducing falls is a constant worry for risk managers, and sometimes it seems there are no new ideas. But many health care providers are finding the most success with an approach that includes a wide range of efforts, everything from special equipment and monitoring systems to making sure every employee is empowered to prevent falls.
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Automation and high-tech systems often are touted as the solution for medication errors, but the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) in Horsham, PA, is warning that you could be substituting one type of medication error for another when you use automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs).
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Problems related to automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs) include both product design flaws and human errors, according to the 2007 ADC Survey from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) in Horsham, PA. There has been some improvement since the first ADC survey in 1999, but not enough.
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Police say an employee of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta stole jewelry from two patients in cases that garnered substantial media attention in the community.
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IRBs often are involved with studies that involve sites in other states, which raise a host of concerns and complications.
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IRB members have different opinions and policies on whether to permit investigators to attend IRB meetings. But are these policies based on any evidence that one way works better than another?
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When IRBs approve a clinical trial site's informed consent documents, they often have no way of knowing how the informed consent process is played out at the site.
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The National Cancer Institute (NCI) of Bethesda, MD, decided to address a deficit in quality of biospecimens collected for research purposes with the recent publication of improved recommendations.
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IRBs and investigators continually look for ways to improve the informed consent (IC) process. One novel idea is to create an interactive informed consent program that serves a dual purpose of providing education to patients and trial participants.
