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A 180-pound patient is partially dependent, able to lift only about half his weight. He's in a chair and needs help standing. How many nurses would it take to help him safely if they have no lift equipment?
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To prepare for an influenza pandemic, you've counted your ventilators and calculated your patient surge, sought options to add bed space and assessed the capacity of the emergency department. But have you estimated how many of your employees will show up for work?
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A 27-year-old former college football player came in for an elective procedure to relieve hip pain. According to media reports, he hoped the surgery would clear a path for him to audition for a professional football team.
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Quality improvement (QI) is such an important part of the daily work process at one independent, Midwestern IRB that there are 17 employees on the regulatory affairs and quality improvement team.
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Experienced and educated IRB professionals are in a very good position this year to command top salaries and find jobs in a variety of research settings, according to experts and the results of the 2007 salary survey conducted by IRB Advisor.
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As research participants confront ever more-complicated clinical trials, they also encounter longer, more complex consent forms. Concerns that informed consent isn't necessarily enhanced by these documents has led researchers to seek more useful ways of educating subjects about the study they're considering.
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Biomonitoringmeasuring levels of environmental toxins in biological samples taken from volunteersis an important tool in public health research, providing valuable information about local exposure levels.
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Education is the foundation of quality improvement, which is why one IRB's main educational tool for investigators is an on-line form for quality improvement through self-assessment.
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After the FDA in 2000 highlighted the problem of investigators inadequately reporting protocol deviations, sponsors have required all deviations to be reported to the IRB.
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Although blunt suture needles are rare in the operating room, other safer practices have begun to take hold.