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IRB and IT collaboration can reap HRPP rewards
IRBs and researchers likely underestimate their vulnerability to data security breaches, which are a growing problem across the healthcare industry.
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IRB members in their own words
Robert L. Klitzman, MD, interviewed some 45 IRB members for his new book, The Ethics Police? The following are some of the published comments by both IRB chairs and members on how they came to be on an IRB and their challenges in weighing the risks and benefits of human research.
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The ethics police? New book issues challenge for change
Meet Robert L. Klitzman, MD, director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University in New York City, and the author of The Ethics Police? The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe.
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TJC praises top hospitals in annual report
Hospitals continue to make progress on quality and safety, according to key measures of The Joint Commission’s 2015 annual report on quality and safety.
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Mobile teams fill the gap between the hospital and the community
A clinical team from The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, visits at-risk patients at home after discharge if the patients don’t qualify for or refuse home health services.
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Diabetes program focuses on the basics
Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, NC, is saving about $425,000 a year by implementing a multidisciplinary model that teaches patients with diabetes the basic skills they need to stay safe after discharge.
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Discharge Planning Requirements at a Glance
What hospitals should consider in evaluating a patient’s discharge needs.
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Preventing readmissions is a core focus of new discharge planning rules
In the proposed changes of the discharge planning portion of the Medicare Conditions of Participation, CMS reaffirms the goal of preventing hospital readmissions by ensuring safe transitions.
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New discharge planning rules focus on preferences, transitions
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued proposed changes to the Medicare Conditions of Participation that would increase the focus on patient preferences in the discharge process and beef up communication when patients are discharged from the hospital.
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A burnout barometer to assess your work culture
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses’ has created tools to address issues associated with a healthy work environment, including burnout and “compassion fatigue,” available at http://www.aacn.org/.