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Youve probably got a defense attorney or two giving you advice on how to avoid liability in slip-and-fall cases, but wouldnt it be great to hear from the other side? Imagine if a plaintiffs attorney explained, Heres how to win when my client sues you. Healthcare Risk Management found a plaintiffs lawyer willing to give you that view from the other side, with some tips about how you can best avoid writing his client a big check.
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Its probably not uncommon for patients to arrive at your facility with their own health care equipment, such as a home dialysis unit or insulin pump, not to mention personal items such as curling irons, computers, and hair dryers. Do you have a policy in place to make sure those items are safe? If you dont, you might be risking significant liability if those items end up injuring anyone.
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Its 3 a.m., and you get a call from the emergency department. The staff is in a heated dispute with a local police officer whos demanding information about a patient who assaulted another while waiting to be transferred to inpatient care. Your staff is worried about violating patient privacy. The officer is complaining loudly that the hospital is obstructing a criminal investigation. Whats a risk manager to do?
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IRBs may want to re-think their policies on evaluating research conflicts of interest in light of new studies indicating disclosure may not have its intended effect.
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Pharmaceutical researchers will have to register their clinical trials with a publicly accessible database if they expect to ever publish their findings in a top-flight medical journal, according to new requirements issued Sept. 8 by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
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Copernicus Group IRB of Cary, NC, sought accreditation to validate that the 8-year-old, independent IRB and human research protection program was on the right track with its human research protection program.
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One possible explanation for why IRB reviews of social-behavioral research pose complications and some confusion among IRBs and researchers can be found in the very different mindsets of the two parties.
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Attendees to the 2004 Annual IRB Conference, sponsored by the Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research and held Oct. 28-31 in San Diego, will find a great deal of discussion about improving communication between IRBs and principal investigators in both biomedical and social-behavioral research areas. IRB Advisor spoke to several people who are scheduled to be PRIM&R panel members before the conference convened in late October, and this issue features stories that explore how to remove communication barriers and strategies for improving the relationship between PIs and IRBs, as well as strategies for helping the IRB process run more smoothly.
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The relationship between IRBs and principal investigators often seems strained and adversarial, but IRB and research experts say the problems mostly can be solved with a few creative changes.
