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When asked about financial issues that affect their agencies, many home health managers might talk about billing, rejected claims, or collection of past-due bills.
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A report offering guidelines to help health care organizations ensure effective, patient-centered communications with patients of diverse backgrounds has been released by the American Medical Association (AMA) Ethical Force Program.
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The ICU at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Desoto, MS, has reduced its rate of ventilator-associated pneumonias (VAPs) from 7.6% to 0.73%, has had only three in the last 24 months...
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The IRB office at Memorial Medical Center in Johnstown, PA, began as many small IRB offices do, with one part-time employee. As the workload increased to about 80 protocols per year, the office turned the part-time position into a full-time administrator position, and organizational procedures were put in place.
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The rapid growth in international research is providing challenges for human subjects protection in other countries, many of which lack the resources that American IRBs have.
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A small but notable percentage of veterans in a long-term drug study were unable to retain some of the simplest information about it including the purpose of the study, the name of the drug and its main side effect for the entire course of the trial.
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IRBs sometimes reject an investigator's request to use the short informed consent form, even when it would meet regulatory and ethical standards.
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As IRBs seek to improve efficiency in their own operations, they often suffer from a lack of the most basic data about the costs of reviewing protocols.
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Lack of consensus on how to measure hand hygiene compliance has made this a daunting challenge for quality professionals.