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With persistent outbreaks but milder than expected disease severity, the novel H1N1 posed a unique dilemma for health care providers. They first needed to assuage fear, then to prevent against complacency. They needed to monitor employee illnesses and provide adequate precautions, yet encountered varying guidance.
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Safety training should never be skimped on, but that doesn't have to mean spending a fortune on consultants or travel.
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Hands-on health care training can empower parents to take care of common childhood ailments at home and save Medicaid millions of dollars annually, a study by UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Institute has concluded.
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Recognizing that low health literacy has a dramatic effect on patient outcomes and the cost of care, the AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies has launched a program to make sure its members understand their treatment plans.
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It was clear to IRB coordinators that something had to be done to improve the length of IRB meetings. Some of the four biomedical IRBs at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL, were fairly fast in reviewing protocols, but others took too long.
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Improving ease of access to potential research data while aggressively protecting identifiable patient information it's a goal that many institutions struggle with.
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Taking steps now to streamline approval processes for fast-moving diseases will better prepare IRBs to handle not just the current H1N1 virus, but future viruses as well, says Raphael Saginur, MD, FRCPC, chief of the infectious disease division and chairman of the research ethics board (REB) at Ottawa Hospital in Ontario.
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As the world faces its first flu pandemic in more than 40 years, researchers say slow, complicated ethics review processes hinder their ability to respond effectively to emerging infectious diseases.
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Keeping IRB chairs and members updated and well informed can be challenging when an institution's human subjects research is rapidly expanding.
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No matter what size your IRB is, you can move to an electronic process for IRB submissions, reviews, and management.