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FDA Struggles to Find Way Forward on COVID-19 Vaccine
Vaccine advisors to the Food and Drug Administration face a tight timeline and a host of unknowns as they try to prepare for an expected winter surge of COVID-19, all the while acknowledging that any plan forward could be dashed by the emergence of a new variant of the pandemic virus.
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Project Firstline: Teaching the ‘Why’ of Infection Prevention
In paring down its isolation guidelines, the CDC is moving in step with its Project Firstline initiative — an ambitious effort to teach all healthcare workers the basics of infection prevention.
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CDC Revising Isolation Guidelines; Revisiting Airborne, Droplet Spread
Infection prevention leaders welcomed the CDC's plan to revise its 2007 patient isolation guideline, which will include dropping the current 206-page “textbook” approach for a leaner, more user-friendly document that healthcare workers can easily access and understand.
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Waning Pandemic May Mean Less Interest in Advance Care Planning
National Healthcare Decisions Day is a time for Americans to document wishes for end-of-life care.
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Informed Consent Considerations if Surgeon Delegates Portion of Operation
Surgeons should be clear there will be other providers in the OR, and that some elements of the operation — not the critical portion the attending has to manage, but other elements — can be delegated to a qualified member of the surgical team. However, the primary attending surgeon’s personal responsibility for the safety and the welfare of the patient cannot be delegated.
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New Guidance to Promote Diverse Populations in Cardiovascular Trials
Individuals who participate in randomized clinical trials should be representative of the patients who will be treated with the drugs under investigation. Unfortunately, studies have consistently shown women and those from racial and ethnic minority groups are consistently underenrolled in cardiovascular clinical trials relative to their disease burden in the population.
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Investigators Make Ethical Commitment for Neuroscience Research in Humans
There are overarching principles of ethical conduct of human neuroscience research, but the methods and implementations may vary across institutions.
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Ethics Training for Community-Engaged Research in Latino Community
Researchers recently provided human research ethics training to community health workers who were studying the effect of an intervention to promote healthy behaviors and expand healthcare access among Latinos.
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Plastic Surgery Poses Unique Ethical Considerations
Plastic surgery is a unique specialty in that there are so many procedures a surgeon might be asked to perform. This ranges from reconstructive surgery after cancer to cosmetic surgery to congenital abnormalities and also burn reconstruction. With that comes a whole host of ethical issues.
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Use Caution if Machine Learning Models Are Used to Predict Mortality
Machine learning and artificial intelligence will be part of caring for patients in some way or another going forward. Clinicians need to know what it all means and what the potential pitfalls are.