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A survey of nearly 5,500 cancer patients found that those with lower incomes were less likely to be enrolled in clinical trials, and more likely to be concerned about paying for participation in a trial.
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IRBs could improve and expedite their review process by hiring someone to pre-review submissions, an expert suggests.
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As the hurricane season picks up and the potential for other types of emergencies continues, a research institution might find it necessary to transfer its IRB-approved research to another institution. Or an IRB simply might need to transfer a single study for a variety of reasons. Federal guidance on how to handle these contingencies now is available.
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When research involves an international or multicultural population, there can be informed consent issues that no one anticipates not even the best-informed IRB.
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Pay-for-performance initiatives, which provide bonuses for physicians, hospitals and other providers who meet certain performance standards, are increasingly used by insurers such as Medicare to try to improve quality and efficiency.
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The first babies brought into the National Children's Study while they were still in utero are now about three years old. And they're not all that's grown.
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There have been many surveys of IRBs and their operations gauging how long protocols take in their journey through review, how much it costs to operate a human subjects protection program, and IRB members' attitudes about various aspects of their work.
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About 73% of employers conduct criminal background checks on all job candidates, according to a 2010 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management, and another 19% of employers do so only for selected job candidates. They can be particularly important in healthcare when a job applicant must be trusted with vulnerable patients and data, but experts caution that background checks have limitations.
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When you work to fix one problem in workplace safety, you may end up reducing other hazards to both workers and patients.
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Cyber attacks. Data thefts. System breaches. They're all on the rise, and healthcare is the no. 1 field at risk, according to a just-released Internet Security Threat Report 2011 Trends from Symantec Corp.1 Consider these recent examples from the outpatient surgery field: