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A news analysis published in CANCER found that black patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or liver cancer, have worse survival than patients of other races, even after receiving comparable treatments.
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From a grassroots organization's efforts to make medical error disclosure and apology part of the U.S. health culture to more hospitals and other health care players are beginning to be aware of apology, and it would appear that more organizations agree that offering an institutional "I'm sorry" is the right thing to do.
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Some of the thorniest questions that IRBs face are those for which there are no clear-cut answers opinions may vary, arguments on both sides may be compelling, regulatory guidance may be scanty.
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When the University of Michigan Health System's chief risk officer arrived in 2001, he had already mapped out to institutional leaders an architecture for risk management and medical error disclosure that would dramatically change the system's liability expenses, as well as its approach to patient safety.
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As medical scientists and engineers in the health care arena pursue advances in drugs and technologies, is now the time to think more critically about these new technologies and how to address future implications for say, the ramifications of genetic screening and designer babies?
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Most physicians reported in a national survey that they would discuss end-of-life options with a terminally ill patient only when there were no more treatments to offer that patient not when the patient was still feeling well, according to a study published online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, in January.
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Technological advances in medicine have the capability of helping health care providers to prolong life for patients faced with a terminal illness or injury.
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Large compensation to subjects for their participation in a study is considered a red flag by many IRBs, who worry that it could provide undue inducement to join a study without considering its risks.
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While passive consent may not be the preferred way of obtaining parental permission to survey underage students, researchers say there will continue to be some situations in which it's the best and perhaps only practical choice.
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When researchers want to survey underage students in school settings, it's obviously necessary to get permission from the children's parents. But exactly how that permission is best obtained has been a matter of debate.
