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Federally qualified community health centers: These centers are funded through federal grants to provide primary and preventive health care in medically underserved areas and must provide the uninsured if they meet guidelines.
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Behavioral health patients are put at risk if the players coming to the table are not coordinating efforts to make the most efficient use of available resources, notes Mark Catalano, LCSW, manager of admissions at Seton Shoal Creek Hospital in Austin, TX.
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Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center reduced the number of patients waiting more than four hours in the emergency department by 35% and cut salaries by $60,000 after installing an electronic bed management system that provides information on bed availability and patient status and location in real-time.
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The controversy of the past few years over possible suicidality associated with various drugs pointed out the importance of tracking suicidal thoughts or behavior in subjects involved in clinical trials.
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Giving children a chance to assent to their own participation in research is an important goal of the pediatric research community. Done properly, it can empower young patients, help them develop their decision-making skills, and prompt them to take their participation more seriously.
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An Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee studying the effects of the HIPAA Privacy Rule has painstakingly documented the strain it is putting on research.
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Whatever IRB members might think happened in the recent regulatory controversy over studying the use of infection control checklists in Michigan hospitals, the truth might be stranger.
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How well is your IRB doing? It depends on who you ask. The subjectivity of any answer makes it a difficult question to measure.
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It all began when investigators published a study that had good news for the infection control industry.
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Risk managers and patient safety experts often run into resistance from physicians when they advocate electronic prescription systems, known as e-prescribing, even though the patient safety benefits are clear. But now a new survey suggests that physicians may be coming around.