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To collect from patients with high-deductible plans, these tools must be available at the point of service, says Gerilynn Sevenikar, vice president of patient financial services at Sharp HealthCare in San Diego:
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Patient access staff at NorthBay Healthcare in Fairfield, CA, use a newly implemented patient payment estimator to tell patients what theyll owe before they schedule an elective surgery.
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Community-based participatory research (CBPR) brings members of the community into a study as partners who are involved with subject recruitment, study design, informed consent, and other aspects of research. Community partners can include tribal councils, religious organizations, neighborhood groups, and other social organizations.
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The agencys Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), released in November, expands clinical trial registration and reporting guidelines for clinical trials that are required to register with ClinicalTrials.gov under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act (FDAAA).
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Blogs, message boards, and patient communities are being used not only by patients, but also by research participants. In some cases, this reveals whether or not a participant is taking actual medication or placebos, compromising the studys validity.
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IRB Advisor asked Diana T. Chingos, MS, MFA, executive director of the Noreen Fraser Foundation in Los Angeles, to tell readers a little more about herself and her hopes and goals for the Secretarys Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP), to which she was appointed in October 2014.
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Its a long-standing issue with IRBs: Studies are approved, participants are enrolled, study interventions and visits occur and someone complains. But then what?
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Federal regulations require researchers to maintain an equitable selection of participants, and IRBs take this into consideration when reviewing study protocols. But what are the ethical implications when a study has difficulty recruiting or retaining subjects? From an IRB perspective, recruitment must not be coercive, but how can researchers ensure participants are truly willing volunteers in small studies that require a major physical commitment?
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There is nobody who walks the path to the NIST Malcolm Baldrige Quality Excellence award and calls it a sprint. It is something deliberately undertaken with some knowledge that it will be a matter of years before you have any real chance of being one of the organizations named a winner.
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If you look at the previous iterations of ECRI Institute’s top 10 tech hazards lists, you will see some items that seem to make the list every year.