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Risk Management Lessons from Running With the Bulls in Spain
As a risk management professional, it’s difficult to turn off my safety radar simply because I’m on vacation.
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Don’t Forget Human Resources in Litigation
Human resources often is overlooked in situations that could lead to a lawsuit. Risk managers should notify human resources of an employee’s involvement in potential litigation.
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Work Carefully With Counsel to Ensure Best Results
Risk managers and legal counsel work closely in any healthcare organization — or, at least, they should. Neither can perform optimally without relying on the other, and a poor working relationship can endanger the organization.
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Plaintiff Challenges Hospital Policy on Radiology
A recent malpractice case in North Carolina illustrates how plaintiffs may challenge the validity of a hospital’s standard of care for a particular situation.
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Policies Must Be Consistent With Standard of Care, but Fluid Also
The standard of care is at the heart of most malpractice allegations, but often disputed. Internal policies and procedures must allow clinicians to follow the standard of care.
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Study: Pain Research Can Harm Participants
Researchers must pay greater attention to the rights of study participants in pain research, concludes a recent paper by the Ethics Committee of the Pain-Omics Group.
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Is It Safe? NIH Ends Moratorium on Enhancing Pandemic Pathogens
"Gain-of-function” research designed to make pathogens deadlier or more transmissible in order to develop treatments and countermeasures has been given a green light by the National Institutes of Health.
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Improve Staff Efficiency, Productivity With These Tips
Staff training that includes a thorough focus on each employee’s job description and expectations, along with staff engagement, can be crucial to improving an IRB office’s workflow and efficiency. Consistency also is key.
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IRBs, Researchers Gain Much by Adding Statistical Reviewer
After an incident involving a protocol modification, the Northwell Health IRB of New Hyde Park, NY, found that the board needed certain expertise that it had been lacking.
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Identifying Key Personality Traits Affected by Parkinson’s Disease, Deep Brain Stimulation
Parkinson’s disease and deep brain stimulation procedures sometimes used to treat it can alter personality, including key traits that make a person, in essence, who they are. While many patients and families report positive changes, there is a need to better identify exactly what personality characteristics may be affected and to what degree personality is altered.