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A North Carolina hospital will pay $4 million to avoid a malpractice trial on allegations that a baby suffered cerebral palsy and other neurological problems stemming from kernicterus, or severe jaundice.
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Question: Should we invest in terrorism insurance for our facility? I hear that its growing in popularity, but should our hospital be considered a likely target?
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A mother brought suit against a hospital on behalf of her son, claiming the nurse was negligent and the hospital violated the standard of care. Prior to trial, the action settled for $1.35 million.
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After having been diagnosed with a broken hip, a 90-year-old nursing home resident was discharged from the hospital. Three days later, a nurses aide at the nursing home attempted to move the patient from her wheelchair to her bed by herself. The patient fell and hit her head, sustaining a subdural hematoma. She was taken back to the hospital, where she died the following day. Her estate brought suit and was awarded $856,000 by the jury. The court reduced the verdict to $356,000.
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of HIPAA Standards staffer Dianne Faup says the agency has received more than 200 transaction/code set complaints, with some 58 still open at the time of her September presentation to the Ninth Annual HIPAA Summit.
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The Radio-Television News Directors Association says all journalists, and particularly those working for electronic media, have been hampered in their work by actual HIPAA privacy requirements and by interpretations of those requirements by some people and organizations.
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Salary levels are up for risk managers this year but may be leveling off, according to the results of this years Healthcare Risk Management Salary Survey.
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The relationship between IRBs and principal investigators often seems strained and adversarial, but IRB and research experts say the problems mostly can be solved with a few creative changes.
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Attendees to the 2004 Annual IRB Conference, sponsored by the Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research and held Oct. 28-31 in San Diego, will find a great deal of discussion about improving communication between IRBs and principal investigators in both biomedical and social-behavioral research areas. IRB Advisor spoke to several people who are scheduled to be PRIM&R panel members before the conference convened in late October, and this issue features stories that explore how to remove communication barriers and strategies for improving the relationship between PIs and IRBs, as well as strategies for helping the IRB process run more smoothly.
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One possible explanation for why IRB reviews of social-behavioral research pose complications and some confusion among IRBs and researchers can be found in the very different mindsets of the two parties.