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Stop the Racket
A coalition of organizations involved in surgery is worried about how new technologies increase the noise and distraction levels in the operating room and otherwise affect patient safety and privacy.
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ASQ healthcare costs and quality survey findings
Read the story behind the survey's findings here.
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ASQ health survey highlights communication, patient experience
The link between quality, the patient experience, and satisfaction received more data support in April with the release of the American Society of Quality’s healthcare survey report.
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Patient experience gains a foothold
There was a time, very recently, when Jason Wolf, PhD, the president of the Beryl Institute in Washington, DC, could talk about patient experience and people would think he was referring to the food you get in hospitals or whether the parking was easy. But it goes beyond that.
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Spring clean IRB reviews by focusing on review criteria
As IRB workloads shift to summer schedules, it’s a good time to assess whether boards are staying on mission focus, an IRB chair suggests.
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Here are a few risk-benefit examples
As IRBs debate and consider how to assess risks and benefits in research, here are a couple of examples of cases where IRBs made controversial and sometimes opposing decisions.
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Dig deep when analyzing risks and benefits
When IRBs and investigators deal with risks, they should identify reasonably foreseeable risks and have reasonable precautions to prevent harm.
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Top IRB findings during accreditation site visits
IRBs and human subjects research protection programs continue to find concerns during site visits in the accreditation process.
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AAHRPP findings reveal issues IRBs need to address
Each year, human subjects protection programs worldwide prepare for accreditation, making changes and improving processes. Which problems crop up most frequently?
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Here’s a quick look at the national IRB reliance agreement
A national IRB model was developed to make the review process more efficient and to offer research organizations an alternative to the central IRB model.