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Parents of children who died in pediatric intensive care units want doctors and nurses to know that they respect and appreciate care providers' technical skills, but what they need more of is a personal, emotional connection with their children's medical providers.
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Are research and quality improvement (QI) mutually exclusive, or natural partners? When QI crosses over into research, what ethical issues can arise?
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The number of academic medical centers that are banning free drug samples, free lunches, and other gifts from pharmaceutical company representatives remains small, but continues to grow.
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If your after-hours answering service is asking patients calling in to decide whether their complaint is an emergency, are you asking for trouble? Possibly, says a Minnesota researcher who evaluated 2,835 after-hours calls to a family medicine residency office in Denver.
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Despite the dominance of technology and medical discourse in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), many parents facing the end of their child's life view the experience as a spiritual journey as well as a medical one. Those families rely on religious faith or spiritual support as they struggle to find meaning in their children's situation and make end-of-life decisions for them.
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A Wisconsin nurse who was arrested on a felony charge stemming from an unintentional medical error that led to the death of a patient last summer will serve three years of probation after pleading no contest to reduced charges, but medical and nursing societies are concerned about the effect the case might have in future medical error situations.
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For some parents who find out that genetic or metabolic tests on their newborns indicate a potential problem, finding out the results were false positive doesn't always mean the stress goes away. In some cases, the lingering stress from the false-positive scare influences how the parents perceive the health of their children for years afterward.
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IRB members and researchers are beginning to hear more about a new model for weighing risks and benefits in human subjects research. Called component analysis, it requires IRBs to weigh individual procedure risks and benefits against themselves.
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It's an accepted truism among many in biomedical research: Blacks won't participate at the same rates as other ethnic groups, because of fear of being exploited, thanks to the legacy of the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
