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It's a constant worry for risk managers: Do you have enough physicians taking emergency department (ED) call duty? Will those on call actually respond when summoned? Are they taking ED calls from other hospitals at the same time?
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A man presented to the hospital complaining of a painful headache. A CT scan was ordered, but the CT scanner was not working properly. After an hour and a half of trying to repair the machine, staff made arrangements to use a backup CT scanner at an imaging center across the street, but that machine also was inoperable.
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Police in Atlanta report they have arrested a man posing as an emergency physician in a hospital, and authorities in Jacksonville, FL, say they still are hunting for a man seen impersonating a doctor in a children's hospital.
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Everyone can use a little TLC, and at Baptist Health, a multifacility health system based in Jacksonville, FL, staff get it from a program called "Transferring and Lifting with Care" or TLC.
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While there certainly are times when doctors just shirk their duties, it is important to remember that they may have justification for not wanting to take ED calls.
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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.
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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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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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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?