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Reduce Clinical Variation to Improve Quality, Resource Use
Clinical variation is the bane of many healthcare leaders, including quality leaders who realize it’s not acceptable to have better processes and outcomes in some areas but not in others. Standardizing clinical resources and processes can significantly improve quality while also reducing costs and resource use.
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Geriatric-Friendly EDs Improve Quality, Outcomes and Satisfaction
Hospitals are finding that EDs designated specifically for geriatric patients can improve quality of care and patient satisfaction for an aging population, but it also is possible to make existing EDs more geriatric-friendly and reap the same benefits.
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People with Mental Illness Often Excluded from Clinical Trials
If a medication for major depression has a dangerous adverse interaction with a different medication that’s being studied in a clinical trial, will it be discovered by researchers and reported in the literature? Not likely, if no one enrolled in the study has major depression.
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IRB Designs Process to Separate QI from HSR
The most commonly asked question of the Intermountain Healthcare IRB in Salt Lake City has been: “Is this quality improvement or is it research?”
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When it was Time to Standardize, IRB Went With a P&G Committee
Collaboration and consolidation of IRBs likely will be an ongoing trend that necessitates action to reduce problems and improve streamlining — in other words, best practices.
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Meeting Management ABCs From an Expert IRB Chair
After 32 years as an IRB member and 20 years as chair, one IRB expert says the key to IRB meeting success could be boiled down to one word: Respect.
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Research on Brain Scan Risk of Alzheimer’s an Ethical Challenge
While different than genetic signs for dementia, biomarker information found in research brain scans also can suggest heightened risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease, and thus the disclosure or withholding of results raises ethical questions for IRBs and investigators.
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Clinical Trial Addresses the Tricky Process of Revealing Genetic Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s
Genetic research that could prevent or treat Alzheimer’s are under study. The caveat is that the human subjects recruited into trials must be willing to know if they carry the DNA markers that may predispose them to subsequent dementia.
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Culture Most Important in Preventing Falls with Elderly
The organization’s culture is the factor most determining the liability risk of a facility or community serving the elderly, according to a recent report from CNA Financial Corporation in Chicago.
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Tell Staff How Safety Reports Make a Difference
Hospital staff will report safety concerns more when they are informed of how their previous reports helped improve patient safety, according to a recent report from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.