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Updated Guidance on Informed Consent in Stroke Management
A new position statement aims to help neurologists provide the highest quality patient care for ischemic stroke by providing ethical guidance on how to navigate the decision-making process for stroke patients who may struggle to provide consent.
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Ethicists Become Involved in Managing Aggressive, Violent Patients
A facility in Vermont created behavior response teams, with ethicists playing a major role in collaboration with other hospital leaders, a psychologist, security staff, and other stakeholders to better manage volatile situations and protect the well-being of patients and employees.
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IRBs Strive to Improve Consistency of Study Protocol Decisions
Is a study protocol OK to go forward? Or are many changes needed for recruitment, consent, or other processes? IRB decisions often are inconsistent on these points — even at the same institution, and sometimes at the same IRB.
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Too Many Scientific Articles End Up Retracted
Over five decades, the authors of a meta-analysis discovered guidelines represented a small percentage of total retractions (0.3%). Scientific misconduct (including data fabrication, plagiarism, and duplication) was found in 62.3% of retracted studies. The number of retractions and misconducts increased from 1980 to 2014, but declined after 2015. The median time from publication to retraction significantly decreased over the study period.
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Analyses: Older Patients Excluded from Many Research Studies
Investigators learned age disparities were worse for industry-funded trials; for trials with enrollment criteria restrictions based on age cutoffs or performance status; for trials that evaluated a targeted, systemic therapy; and for lung cancer trials.
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Lack of Basic Knowledge on Clinical Trials Makes Study Recruitment Harder
Survey respondents with a history of cancer and those who have heard of ClinicalTrials.gov knew more about trials. Such knowledge also was more abundant among college graduates and those who had been asked to participate in a trial.
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Legal Ruling Triggers Changes to No Surprises Act
U.S. District Court invalidated the independent dispute resolution process.
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Long-Term Care Facilities Cut Superfluous Antibiotic Use
Locations that adhered to federal safety program reported more success in this area.
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HCW Injuries, Illness Off the Charts in 2020
Healthcare workers in the United State experienced a more than twofold increase in injury and illness rates in 2020, the first year of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. -
Vaccine Expert: SARS-CoV-2 Is Becoming Endemic
Make of it what you will in an unpredictable pandemic, but one of the nation’s leading vaccine and immunology experts sees COVID-19 fading to a somewhat undefined endemic level and then returning as a seasonal virus next winter.