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When Lyn Clark, RN, BSN, became case management director at Lake Granbury Medical Center in Granbury, TX, she found herself with a staff working with no direction and who had very little knowledge about the role of case management in the hospital setting.
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Community-based research requires a special type of review, and so should have its own type of review board, one that balances the responsibilities that IRBs have to individuals with an appreciation for the needs of the community in which research is conducted.
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A group of mental health professionals, trauma researchers, ethicists and IRB representatives have published a set of ethical guidelines for research with victims of disasters.
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In the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, New York City became a focal point for researchers interested in studying everything from post-traumatic stress disorder to physical complications among workers at the Ground Zero site.
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When investigators interviewed 22 children in 1992, the IRB had questions, but the project was approved, leading to one of the few studies conducted in its area of interest.
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There are a number of innovative practices IRBs can employ to improve their office's efficiency and work quality.
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The clinical trial industry continues to experience major delays, leading to higher costs and a slow pipeline of products making it to market, experts say.
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While it was not always so, nurses are now members of ethics committees in most hospitals, and are participating in consults where they traditionally were not.
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The state with the landmark statute allowing dying patients to ask their physicians for medication they can choose to take to end their lives has changed the term for the act from "suicide" to "death".