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Hospitals need to make a huge new investment in antiviral medications to protect their workers from pandemic influenza, according to new draft recommendations from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Prophylaxis could cost an individual hospital more than $125,000.
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A special task force of the American Psychological Association studying the tensions between IRBs and psychology researchers has released a list of recommendations on how to address those tensions.
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Studies involving terrorism or disaster victims should receive extra attention and concern from the IRB, but not always for the reasons IRB members suspect, an expert says.
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The recommendations of the American Psychological Association's Task Force on IRBs and Psychological Science focus on giving IRBs and psychological researchers a better understanding of each other's methods and motivations, as well as generating more useful data about how the two groups interact.
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Fledgling student investigators at universities can find human subjects protection regulations complicated and overwhelming and the IRB bureaucracy intimidating and scary.
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How IRBs should handle incidental findings is becoming such a notable issue among IRB professionals that there was a recent conference devoted to the topic.
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In early 2008, Massachusetts hospitals will adopt a uniform policy not to charge patients or insurers for certain rare but serious adverse events, the Massachusetts Hospital Association announced recently.
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When Cassandra Pundt, RN, CEN, decided to "ratchet down" from her demanding job as emergency department nursing manager at St. Mary's Hospital in Tucson, AZ, she created a position for herself that made use of her nursing skills and filled a void in the ED operation.
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As Northern Hospital of Surry County moved from one manual solution for tracking registration errors to another, Terry Hancock, manager of patient access and customer service, says ...
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The traumatic events of Sept. 11, 2001, now seared into the national consciousness, were particularly up close and personal for Michael Friedberg, FACHE, CHAM, who was on his way to work at Jersey City Medical Center, across the river from the World Trade Center, when the hijacked planes hit the towers.