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Many IRBs spend countless hours of review focusing on the consent documents needed for research studies. Are they too technical? Written at too high a level of readability? Too vague? Not extensive enough in their description of potential risks?
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One of the most important services an IRB can provide is rapid turnaround on protocol reviews. The next most important service is providing quality documents, says the president of a large independent IRB in Austin, TX.
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Major corporate research sponsors and large institutional sponsors in the United States increasingly are conducting clinical trial research overseas. Sometimes this raises concerns among IRBs and human subjects protection leaders about human subjects protection measures taken by these organizations.
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Reducing readmissions has become an increasingly important goal for hospitals. Medicare is evaluating various payment incentives to encourage lower rates of preventable readmissions.
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It took more than 260 days, hundreds of hours on the telephone, and a lot of networking and brainstorming for Chesapeake General Hospital in Chesapeake, VA, to find post-acute care for a seriously ill pediatric patient.
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A simple communication tool used by case management and nursing has decreased the turnaround between when discharge orders are issued and the time the patient is out the door at North Broward Medical Center in Deerfield Beach, FL.
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With Medicare's stricter reimbursement guidelines and the likelihood that commercial payers will follow suit, it's more important than ever before for patients to move as quickly and safely as possible through the continuum of care, the experts say.
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Patient access specialists at Texas Health Resources (THR) hospitals are learning their job "as it was meant to be learned," one of the many positive outcomes related to implementation of a centralized intake center at the Arlington-based health system, says the center's director, Jeff Ferrell.
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Putting in place technology and processes to determine the financial resources of self-pay patients at the point of service (POS) has helped increase collections, reduce bad debt, and ensure accuracy of patient identification at Southern Regional Medical Center (SRMC) in Riverdale, GA, says Tracey Frederick, senior systems analyst.
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At Ingham Regional Medical Center in Lansing, MI, case managers take the lead in a multidisciplinary effort to increase the number of patients who are discharged by noon.