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When faculty and researchers' anger and complaints rose heavily against a university's IRB, a new vice chancellor of health sciences took charge, hiring someone to answer the criticism through policy and personnel changes.
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When the University of California, San Francisco's IRB denied a plan to have volunteers attempt to buy single cigarettes illegally at neighborhood stores, they cited the following concerns:
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A California IRB that had turned down a proposed study of cigarette sales in two San Francisco neighborhoods, instead found itself to be the object of scrutiny in the form of a journal article about its decision.
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Many of the same ethical issues need to be considered for on-line research as with any other type of research, but there are a few differences, an expert says.
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The debate about the appropriateness of placebos in clinical trials recently spilled over into the pages of the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, where two obstetricians and a representative of the national public-interest watchdog group Public Citizen wrote to complain about a published study of an antiviral drug used to prevent herpes outbreaks in pregnant women.
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A web site designed by Boston's Children's Hospital to better educate parents about pediatric research has won the top award for best practice in human subjects protection by the Health Improvement Institute.
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Many top hospital decision makers still fail to recognize that case management is a core function of patient care, not an optional service that needs to prove return on investment, says Karen Zander, RN, MS, CMAC, FAAN, principal and co-owner of the Center for Case Management in South Natick, MA.
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When Nancy Skinner, RN, CCM, was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2004, she asked her health plan for a case manager to help her navigate through the health care system during treatment.
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When it comes to coding, a rose by any other name may mean that your hospital isn't getting the reimbursement it deserves.
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Case management involvement in the documentation enhancement process can be limited to monitoring specific DRGs and collaborating closely with coding specialists to an environment where the case management department has staff whose entire focus is on documentation enhancement, asserts Lorraine Larrance, BSN, MHSA, CPHQ, CCM, manager with Pershing Yoakley & Associates, a Charlotte, NC, health care consulting firm.