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What should our emergency department staff do when a patient requests transfer to another facility before being examined and stabilized? Can we comply with that request without violating EMTALA?
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Slips and falls are a leading loss driver in both frequency and severity, says Jim Sheridan, senior risk control consultant with PMA Insurance Group in Blue Bell, PA.
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Experts say these are the top 10 strategies for reducing slips, trips, falls, and the associated liability.
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Slips, trips, and falls happen in any health care setting, and they can be enormously expensive. The good news is that you can sharply reduce those accidents by aggressively employing some rather simple strategies.
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In the year 2000, Health Care Financing Administration (now known as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) issued its National Coverage Determination (NCD) extending Medicare coverage to routine costs of qualifying trials, as well as those items and services made necessary to diagnose or treat complications arising from clinical trial participation.
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IRBs often struggle with decisions regarding the reporting of adverse events and unanticipated problems, and the recent increases in IRBs workloads do not help the situation, experts say.
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An adverse event is any undesirable experience associated with the use of a medical product in a patient. The event is SERIOUS and should be reported when the patient outcome is the following.
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Question: What rights to their research-related results do patients have?
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The furor surrounding the derivation and collection of embryonic stem cells has eclipsed the many other ethical, legal, and social issues that should be examined before these therapies move from the laboratory to human clinical application, say researchers working at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
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A debate that has become more heated in the 21st century is whether all embryonic research should be subject to human subject research protection and IRB review.
