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Guide Available for Including Informal Caregivers
Hospital leaders seeking guidance on how to integrate friends and family as informal caregivers at discharge can consult a resource made available by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) and Patients for Patient Safety Canada (PFPSC).
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Most Hospitals Penalized in HRRP All Five Years
CMS penalized more than half of hospitals participating in the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program initiated by the Affordable Care Act in all five years of the program — but penalties were less common for hospitals treating the most medically complex patients, according to a recent analysis.
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CARE Act Requires Hospitals to Ask About Caregivers
The Caregiver Advise, Record, and Enable (CARE) Act requires hospitals to give inpatients the opportunity to formally identify a caregiver, such as a friend or relative, who can provide assistance with aftercare following discharge.
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Using Family as Informal Caregivers Cuts Readmissions 25%
Hospitals never seem to have enough resources, but you might be overlooking people who could be effective in improving post-discharge care and reducing readmissions: the friends and family of the patient.
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Readmissions Reduced to 7.8% with Nursing Intervention at Home
Hospitals can significantly reduce readmissions with a multilayered program tailored to the needs of individual patients, according to the experience of an Arizona health system.
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New Report on Research Integrity: Institutions Also Play a Role
It’s not just individual researchers who need to support scientific integrity. Institutions and environments also play important roles, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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Researchers Develop Three Strategies to Shorten Informed Consent Forms
One new study has an answer to overly long consent forms that might appeal to most people who work in human research protection: eliminate repetition.
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Watch Out for ‘Toxic’ Studies When Adding New Hospital to HRPP
When WellSpan Health merged with a community hospital, an unexpected problem came to the attention of the human research protection program -- having to do with 17 open studies at the hospital joining the WellSpan Health system.
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The Central IRB Rule Is Still On — For Now
Soon, all IRBs will need to be ready to contract with central IRBs on cooperative research studies. While many IRBs already participate in reliance agreements, they say it’s becoming more complex and will take time and practice to prepare organizations for the big change.
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The Big Chill: IRB Critic Says Changes Fall Short
IRB Advisor asked Zachary M. Schrag, PhD, to weigh in on his past concerns in light of the revised changes to the Common Rule.