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IRB Advisor: What are some the latest issues and things discussed and decided by SACHRP?
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Want to attract and retain good nonscientific, unaffiliated IRB members? Cast your net wider for interested people, train them well and nurture them carefully.
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As times change and evolve, so do IRBs and, ultimately, IRB guidelines and rules. Lately, the evolution of IRBs can be seen in the trend of an increasing number of multi-site studies.
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The first step to improving your IRB office's efficiency is to collect data through a software system that will make sense of files and reports.
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When traumatically injured patients are admitted to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the only Level 1 Trauma Center in New Hampshire, their care is coordinated from arrival in the emergency department (ED) through discharge.
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Before Mease (FL) Dunedin Hospital began a Six Sigma project to improve patient discharge, only 45% of patients whose discharge orders were issued by noon were being discharged by 1 p.m.
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A good relationship with in-house counsel will help you both to your jobs better, especially if you are employed by a large, complex health care organization.
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This is the basic framework of the SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation) checklist developed by Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, CA, to improve patient safety when handing off a patient from clinician to another.
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The evidence released so far concerning the suspicious deaths at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans has John Banja, PhD, assistant director for health sciences and clinical ethics at Emory University in Atlanta, thinking ...
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The attorney representing Anna Pou, MD, accused of murdering patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, says the doctor should be lauded for her work in the flooded hospital, not charged with any crime.