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Create More Thorough, Efficient New IRB Member Training
Educating and onboarding IRB members should include more than perfunctory online human subjects research training. The goal could be to provide new members with comprehensive information in a well-organized training program.
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Low Health Numeracy Also Is an Informed Consent Problem
Low health numeracy is a problem that could affect how well trials recruit and provide informed consent to potential participants. It’s defined by how well people access, process, interpret, communicate, and act on numerical, biostatistical, and other numbers-related health information.
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Tips for Simplifying Informed Consent Language
Using plain language in informed consent forms means exchanging medical and statistical jargon for words that people with low health literacy and low health numeracy would understand.
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Give People What They Need in Informed Consent: Plain Language
Most research informed consent forms are written at a high school reading level when many people who are being recruited for studies might need language nearer to a fifth-grade level, according to a new study.
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Dissenting Opinion: New Common Rule Penalizes the Compliant
Many see the single IRB requirement in the revised Common Rule as a necessary sword to sever the Gordian knot of regulatory overlap and unnecessary delay of multisite review. Suzanne M. Rivera, PhD, is not one of them.
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Deadline Extended for Common Rule Compliance
With finalization of the revised Common Rule postponed for at least six months — and possibly one year — IRBs should continue preparing to comply with the regulation as they await additional clarification and guidance.
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PAs Provide More Patient Contact, Reduce LOS, and Maintain Quality
Physician assistants have helped one hospital improve care in its observation unit without increasing costs, partly by providing more contact with patients than physicians can. The hospital also has optimized its observation unit model.
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ED-based Intervention Connects Frequent Users With Program to Address Underlying Needs
A new program at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta seeks to short-circuit the cycle of frequent ED care so that patients with complex conditions are connected with the help they need without continually sapping emergency medicine resources.
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App Pushes Patient Education to New Level
Not so long ago, case managers relied primarily on paper brochures and tip sheets when supplementing in-person patient education. Many might still use paper in addition to web-based information, but the newest frontier involves apps that bring education to a patient’s fingertips at precisely the moment he or she needs it.
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Take It From Survivors: Here’s What to Do When Disaster Strikes
Case manager leaders found that preparing staff to be mobilized or available via phone was crucial during Hurricane Harvey.