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Changes in the notifications that hospitals must give Medicare patients about their pending discharge are making discharge planning and careful documentation more important than ever before.
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Cell phones replaced land-based pagers at Richland Hospital in Richland Center, WI, when the area was hit by severe storms and flooding in late August.
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New members on an IRB always need some amount of education to understand how the review process works and what their role will be on the board.
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The implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has added length and complexity to the process of getting research approved.
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Research institutions are becoming more sophisticated in their recruitment and retention of community IRB members, says Marjorie Speers, PhD, executive director of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP).
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IRB members often begin their new role with many questions and concerns. While these may be answered during a formal training program, there is another way to help ease new members into the role, and that's through a formal mentoring program.
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At least one research institute has found a solution to the problem of finding time for IRB members to review protocols for both the science and ethical issues.
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When the IRB at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT, spent two years seeking accreditation, the institution's electronic system was what helped most, the IRB director says.
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A woman who had an ectopic pregnancy and suffered from paranoid schizophrenia went to the hospital complaining of a two-week history of vaginal bleeding. Unable to detect any fetal heart tones or recognize a fetus in utero, an on-call obstetrician/gynecologist discharged the woman. The woman returned to the hospital a couple of days later, but again was discharged when she said she had started to feel better. The woman was subsequently found dead at home.
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The Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) says it supports development of interoperable electronic personal health records (ePHR) that are interactive and use a common data set of electronic health information and e-health tools.