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IRBs Could Address Ethical Issues Related to Tracking Devices
Some IRBs have begun to review studies that use medical devices with tracking technology. These types of mobile devices raise some ethical and regulatory questions.
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The Choice: A Decision to Decline a Clinical Trial
Ten years ago, Rebecca Dresser, MS, JD, faced a life-changing and, quite possibly, life-saving decision. As a bioethicist and IRB member, she was informed of a diagnosis of cancer and offered a difficult choice: She could enter a new clinical trial for treatment, or follow a specific regimen recommended by oncologists on a tumor board.
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IRB Collaborations With Tech Companies Could Mean What to the IRB?
Tech companies increasingly are partnering with research institutions. These partnerships include sharing data and project collaboration. What IRBs will want to know as this trend continues is what it means from a human research protection perspective.
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Bypassing an IRB Review, Researchers Held Herpes Vaccine Trial on an Island
The human research protection community recently learned of a troubling clinical trial that involved private funding, a U.S. medical college researcher who died this summer, and a study held on a Caribbean island. The clinical trial was for a live attenuated herpes simplex virus-2 vaccine injected in human participants, and it was never reviewed by an IRB.
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Bundled Approach to Handoff Communication Delivers Significant Safety Dividends
With an estimated 80% of the most serious medical errors linked to communication failures, handoff processes are a rich target for improvement. There are numerous tools designed to help providers remember to convey the most important information when transitioning a patient to another provider, but one approach in particular has demonstrated in multiple studies that it can reduce medical errors and preventable adverse events substantially.
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Organization Expands Case Management for North Carolina Sickle Cell Population
North Carolina patients with sickle cell disease are a small population that experiences repeated and costly ED visits and hospitalizations. Community Care of North Carolina has 600 care managers statewide, who work primarily with Medicaid patients, matching them with 14 networks and care managers across the state.
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Orthopedic Nurse Navigator Helps Surgery Patients Stay Healthy
The Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement program helped the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Passavant reduce the percentage of total joint replacement patients who are discharged to a skilled nursing facility instead of home.
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Medicare Payment Codes Related to Care Management
Starting in 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services provided new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System codes for care management payment.
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Designers of Collaborative Behavioral Health and Primary Care Models See Growth in Future
Recent Medicare funding for care management services, related to integrated behavioral health and primary care, has provided more incentives for healthcare organizations to use this approach.
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Emerging Fungus Can Colonize Skin for Months
Employee health professionals should be aware of an emerging new multidrug-resistant fungal “superbug,” Candida auris. This pathogen spreads more like bacteria than fungi and can colonize the skin for prolonged periods, the CDC reports.