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Clinical researchers may be looking to expand their program horizons as some areas of research continue to grow.
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Research programs and IRBs across the nation increasingly are focusing on streamlining their human subjects research programs. One change that has grown over the past decade involves "unchecking the box" on the Federalwide Assurance (FWA).
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Informed consent discussions and recommendations are important and time-consuming. IRBs continually seek ways to improve the informed consent process while also finding better and more efficient ways of handling them. One way to streamline the IC process could be to make certain IRBs are not inundated with IC forms unnecessarily.
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Research institutions nationwide continue to look for ways to improve quality while eliminating redundancy, regulatory creep, and inefficiencies. The key to success is flexibility and considering changes in any type of process that is not working as efficiently as possible, experts say.
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Not every clinical trial report sees the light of day. Some are abandoned when trial sponsors no longer actively seek publication, or when a study is misreported and no efforts are made to correct it.
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For about 30 years, the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis has had a research partnership with Moi University's Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya, including an exchange program for medical students. As the clinical collaboration grew, IU researchers partnered with researchers at Moi to conduct studies in Kenya and other parts of Africa.
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While the exorbitant costs of health care associated infections (HAIs) have been repeatedly cited as a prime reason for prevention second only to the higher calling of patient safety an inconvenient truth was recently revealed by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Looking at central line related bloodstream infections which kill some 28,000 patients annually they found a disturbing disincentive to prevent CLABSIs at the very heart of the health care system profit.
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Infection preventionists must raise a common voice in support of the measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) vaccine to overcome the misplaced fears and false information that have led to recurrent outbreaks in unvaccinated populations, an IP urged recently in Fort Lauderdale, FL at the 40th annual meeting of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
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It is an unfortunate sign of the times that recurrent injection safety lapses and hepatitis outbreaks have reached the point where public health officials felt it necessary to create a toolkit to guide notification and follow-up of patients potentially exposed to bloodborne pathogens.
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Despite all the accolades and academic honors, Nathan Wolfe, PhD, is disarmingly down to a very different Earth one teeming with microbes that are ever interacting with animals and man.
