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Media attention on research conflicts of interest has made it imperative that IRBs be aware of a wider variety of potential conflicts of interest than what they may have considered in the past, experts say.
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As studies become geared toward narrow research questions, targeting specific groups, IRB members will have an even more challenging time resolving ethical dilemmas and weighing risks and benefits.
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When an IRB is confronted with reviewing an unfamiliar commercial collaboration to collect human tissue, it doesn't have to work in a vacuum.
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Commercial tissue repositories looking for sources of human tissue, and hospitals that discard tissue from surgeries daily, could appear to be a match made in heaven.
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The Department of Health and Human Services found that less than 25% of the total medical privacy complaints lodged with the agency merited further federal investigation of the health care organizations involved, according to an analysis of HHS' Office of Civil Rights (OCR) statistics by Melamedia LLC President Dennis Melamed.
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While patients assume their doctors will work to maintain trust and privacy in their relationships with patients, research has shown that health care providers often disclose personal information to patients' family members.
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During a delivery, a contract OB/GYN improperly used forceps. The infant's skull was crushed in the process, which left the child severely brain damaged.
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Progress toward meeting key patient safety goals is "abysmal" at most hospitals, according to The Leapfrog Group, a patient safety advocacy organization in Washington, DC.
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All of the emphasis on reducing medical errors has not escaped your patients' attention, and they may be defining the term so broadly that they will never be satisfied with your care, according to the results of a recent study from the Joint Commission.