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Study Looks at Use of Emergency Research Informed Consent
Emergency research is essential to improving healthcare, but following regulatory human research protection rules can be challenging — particularly with informed consent.
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How to Ensure Exempt Studies Maintain Data Confidentiality
Whether the Common Rule changes requirements for handling exempt studies, IRBs might choose to stay involved in these decisions. How they accomplish that depends on the IRB’s policies, procedures, and goals, but one important focus should be on data confidentiality.
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Clinical Trials Often Exclude Women, Even When There Could Be Compelling Benefit
Clinical trials often exclude pregnant women, citing additional risks. However, women almost never are asked what they think about participating in those studies and the risks. This is an issue some researchers are working to correct.
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Revisiting the ‘Unfortunate Experiment’ in New Zealand
It’s astonishing in retrospect that women in New Zealand diagnosed with an increasingly clear precursor to cervical cancer were left untreated and uninformed in an unethical study that continued for two decades.
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Most Clinicians Admit to Sharing EMR Passwords
A majority of medical staff surveyed recently said they have accessed an electronic medical record (EMR) system using a password improperly supplied by a fellow medical staffer, and explained that strict confidentiality rules can make it difficult to get the data needed to do their jobs properly.
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Choose Your Value-based Model Wisely, AHA Report Says
A report from the American Hospital Association concluded that although quality and outcomes are gaining prominence in determining revenue for healthcare organizations, determining how to apply them in new reimbursement models is not always clear.
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Thyroidectomy Measures Could Be Good Hospital Metrics
Data from a retrospective cohort study indicated that hospital performance is related to postoperative hypocalcemia and recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) injury, a correlation close enough to suggest that the measure could be used to assess overall hospital quality.
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Study Finds ACA Penalties Linked to Higher Mortality
Affordable Care Act financial penalties intended to discourage repeat hospitalizations are associated with higher mortality rates for patients with heart failure, according to a recent study.
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Administrator Says CMS Working to Reduce Quality Requirements
CMS Administrator Seema Verma said recently that the agency is working to reduce the regulatory burden on hospitals.
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Meaningful Recognition Reduces Burnout and Improves Satisfaction
Compassion fatigue threatens patient safety and quality of care, but it can be addressed with meaningful recognition of the contributions of nursing staff, according to a recent report.