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Butler County Health Care Center (BCHCC) in David City, NE, is small it has 25 beds serving a rural community of 2,500 but the administrators think big. Using a program that enhances teamwork, the hospital has reduced patient falls by 88% and medication errors that reach the patient by 30%.
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Brace for millions of more patients. With the recent Supreme Court ruling that cleared a path for most provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to proceed, you might see a measurable increase in surgery patients as early as next year and continuing through the end of the decade, predicts the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN).
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Involving a disability community in research from its inception can help shape the research so that it's more successful and addresses the community's needs better.
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If an IRB's policy and procedures manual needs updating, it might be time to write or revamp the section on criteria for review.
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Sometimes an IRB's caseload grows so big and complex that new processes have to be implemented or the workload is unmanageable.
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When reviewing cancer clinical trials, IRBs must weigh the risks and benefits to potential participants. But it's not always clear what participants themselves consider to be a risk or a benefit of their enrollment in a study.
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Research in environmental sciences, engineering and related fields can raise unique ethical issues that may be unfamiliar to many IRBs, particularly when it comes to community-based research.
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Research institutions occasionally have studies that involve a population or topic that brings up issues of social injustice, such as studies involving war refugee populations or pediatric HIV foster children.
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Some of the latest versions of electronic health records have created logistical dilemmas for research institutions as they find that providing access to information is more difficult for research monitors, researchers browsing for information about potential subject pools, and other activities.