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Strategies for improving study recruitment of minorities
Investigators and IRBs are finding a variety of ways to increase minority representation in studies and clinical trials, including policies mandating such recruitment.
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Research communities work creatively to improve minority recruitment in clinical trials
In the three years since Congress passed the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act of 2012 with its provision encouraging the inclusion of minorities in clinical trials, IRBs and research sites have continued to struggle with the need to diversify study participant pools.
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Top medical journals propose mandating data sharing
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors — which counts several prestigious periodicals among its members — is giving authors an offer they can’t refuse: Agree to share your clinical trial data with subsequent researchers or your manuscript will not be published.
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IRB members in their own words
Robert L. Klitzman, MD, interviewed some 45 IRB members for his new book, The Ethics Police? The following are some of the published comments by both IRB chairs and members on how they came to be on an IRB and their challenges in weighing the risks and benefits of human research.
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The ethics police? New book issues challenge for change
Meet Robert L. Klitzman, MD, director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University in New York City, and the author of The Ethics Police? The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe.
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Were study’s findings misleading?
The “slanting” of data published in the scientific literature was recently spotlighted after an independent analysis suggested a psychiatric drug did not show efficacy, contradicting a previous study’s conclusions.
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Growing evidence that teleconsultation can support palliative care provision
There is growing evidence that telepalliative care consultation is an effective approach, but fee-for-service systems and lack of reimbursement are obstacles.
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Surprising data on nursing homes and “culture change”
Some nursing homes that rely heavily on Medicaid funding have implemented “culture change” or palliative care, a recent study found.
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Access to mental healthcare is “question of social justice”
Access to equal benefits and qualified providers remains difficult for many insured Americans, despite the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, according to a recent health policy brief.
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Many oncologists being asked to solicit donations from patients
About one-third of oncologists had been asked to directly solicit a donation from their patients for their institutions, according to a recent study - and half declined to do so.