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Small colleges and undergraduate departments at universities are finding it increasingly important to formalize their human subject protection programs while making certain IRBs are reviewing what they should and not filling agendas with a lot of unnecessary reviews, several experts say.
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Human subjects training is typically a part of human subjects protections programs. Such training has taken the form of in-house seminars given at regular intervals and web-based activities. Regardless of the form, the objectives are simple: Give those involved in human subject research ethics and regulatory information that will promote beneficence and compliance with regulations.
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At an Oklahoma hospital, two children died within a few days of each other after having routine outpatient surgical procedures. One child died from toxic effects of morphine with a probable primary myopathy as a contributing cause, and the other child died from probable codeine and morphine toxicity, along with acute and chronic bronchitis with evolving pneumonia, according to the autopsy reports.
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In light of so many providers having difficulty meeting the standard of care for medication administration, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is taking action.
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In this second part of a two-part series on new technology, we discuss how to handle credentialing in this story and how to respond to errors.
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I have had several individuals contact me regarding a past article in which I mentioned that the service that administrators find the most difficult to work with is anesthesia. Since I wrote that article, I have tried to understand from where the problems arise. After further conversations with the original group and others, especially anesthesia personnel, it appears that many of the problems same-day surgery programs are having result from poor communication.
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Major advances in reducing sharps injuries have not yet pervaded the OR, where one out of four sharps injuries takes place, but there are some simple steps that same-day surgery managers can take to promote safety, sharps safety experts say.
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Florida surgeons cannot perform liposuction and abdominoplasty procedures on the same patient within 14 days of each other as a result of a 90-day moratorium imposed by the Florida Board of Medicine on Feb. 11, 2004.
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