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Nurses who smoke experience feelings of guilt and embarrassment and also might be less likely to intercede with patients to encourage them to quit smoking because they feel to do so would be hypocritical.
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Are Im sorry really the magic words? According to a coalition of doctors, hospitals, attorneys, and patients, a lesson most of us learned as toddlers could be the key to stemming the flood of medical malpractice lawsuits in the United States.
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An effective compliance oversight process can nip noncompliance problems in the bud acting quickly to handle small problems before they get bigger, even preventing future noncompliance from occurring.
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New ethics guidelines rolled out by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), aimed at repairing a damaged public image, angered employees and could create internal problems for the organization.
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Two-thirds of Americans believe that clinical research is safe for people who participate in them, according to a survey by the Center for Information and Study on Clinical Research Participation (CISCRP) and Opinion Dynamics Corp. (ODC).
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From a renewed push for a mandatory clinical trials registry to a new secretary of Health and Human Services, the political landscape promises to keep IRBs and others involved in protecting human research subjects busy.
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A pilot program of a web-based system for reporting adverse events in clinical trials already has shown itself to be a timesaver for study staff at the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.
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Although IRBs are often charged with giving special consideration to research involving subjects deemed to be particularly vulnerable to exploitation, there is no standard definition of what this term means, and no guidance governing what additional protective measures it should prompt.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to delay the start of a controversial effort to study the effect of pesticides on children after some agency officials raised concerns about its recruitment procedures.
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Blue Shield of California is taking a different approach to cutting health care costs rewarding members for engaging in activities aimed at improving their health. Members who are participating in the two-year pilot project log onto the Blue Shield web site and complete activities at least once a week for a minimum of 20 weeks to earn a reward of $75. Members who participate for 28 weeks earn $150. At 35 weeks, the cash reward goes up to $200.
