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More IRBs are being drawn into the complex and controversial world of human embryonic stem cell research.
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The federal Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) is seeking public comment through May 24 on recommendations regarding the use of human subjects protection procedures of foreign countries in overseas research.
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Support groups for people who suffer from chronic or life-threatening illnesses can be a valuable source of community members for IRBs, says a woman who founded a support group and serves on two boards.
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A survey of warning letters sent to IRBs by the FDA shows that most of the offenders were deficient in some of the most fundamental areas of responsibility failing to have or follow adequate review procedures and failure to maintain adequate documentation of IRB activities.
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Individual states, including California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Wisconsin, now are moving forward to fill the funding gap for stem cell research. So far, California leads the pack voters approved a $3 billion bond measure for stem cell research in November.
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Though research and anecdotal evidence seem to show that integrating disability and health care programs for all injuries and illnesses whether suffered on the job or off can get employees back to work more quickly, prevent absences, and lower total benefit costs, most employers are slow to warm up to the idea.
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Using a comprehensive approach to care management called Next Generation Care Management, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has cut both the number of catastrophic case managers and the average caseload while increasing the savings per catastrophic case by 300%.
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The National Quality Forum (NQF) has published a new set of national consensus standards, National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Cardiac Surgery, which provides a standardized set of measures and framework for improving the quality of cardiac surgery (which accounts for about 14,000 in-hospital deaths each year).
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While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduces new programs designed to address the care of chronically ill patients, home health agencies continue to find innovative ways to provide care to diabetic and congestive heart failure (CHF) patients two of the most common diagnoses identified as chronic illnesses.
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After an exhaustive process that involved collecting and evaluating more than 150 separate definitions of case management, the Case Management Leadership Coalition (CMLC) has come up with a statement designed to help case managers explain what they do.
