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ICU Strain Speeds Timing to Withdrawal of Life-sustaining Therapy
During busy periods in the ICU, decision-making regarding withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy is made more quickly, found a recent study. Researchers analyzed the effect of ICU capacity strain on 9,891 patients dying in the hospital.
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ED-Initiated Palliative Care Yields Dramatic Cost Savings
ED-initiated palliative care consults have the potential to decrease costs and length of stay, found a recent study.
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Surrogate Decision-makers Face Ethical Questions If Patient Has Dementia
Even when the prior wishes of a patient with dementia were known, the process of decision-making was often fraught with complexity, found a recent study.
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Student Receives IRB Approval to Collect and Display Comments From Sexual Assault Victims
A Notre Dame student received approval for her design project including the statements of sexual assault victims.
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A Consent Consult Helps New Researchers With Informed Consent
IRBs can teach researchers how to create informed consent forms, but perhaps what they most need are lessons in how to handle the consent process.
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Here Is a Nutshell Look at Ways to Improve Compliance
The Montclair State University IRB in Montclair, NJ, has a variety of strategies to improve research protection compliance, including providing educational materials with eye-catching infographics.
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IRB Gets New Researchers’ Attention With Visually Clever Infographics
As the IRB at Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ, worked on creating a culture of compliance, IRB leaders learned that new researchers, including students, pay more attention to policies and regulations when they’re spelled out in more pictures than words.
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Social Media Research Recruitment Checklist
The following are key points summarized from a recently published checklist for IRB evaluation of social medial recruitment proposals from investigators.
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Ethical Issues of Research Recruiting on Social Media
Not surprisingly, the exploding social media landscape is fraught with ethical intrigue for researchers who seek to recruit human research subjects for clinical trials.
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No ROMP in the Park: The Complex Intersection Between QI and Clinical Research
Somewhere between typical human research and clinical practice, there is gray area assigned the acronym ROMP — “research on medical practices” — that includes activities such as continuous quality improvement, comparative effectiveness research, and electronic medical record review, the authors of a new study explain.