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Accreditation standards regarding community outreach and education encompass just two short paragraphs and elements in the standards written by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) of Washington, DC.
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While many IRBs complain about the quality of informed consent, there's been little substantive research into how to improve it, particularly for subjects with low literacy, says a researcher who has studied the issue.
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As institutions wait to find out what comes out of the ANPRM, there are steps they can take now to work within the current regulations and achieve the Department of Health and Human Service's goals of lessening the burden on investigators and IRBs while still protecting subjects.
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Physicians often are engaged in a research study at some point in their careers, but if they're working in the community primarily as clinicians they might not receive optimal mentoring and training in protecting human research subjects.
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Within one year of opening its doors in 2009, Opus IRB of Roswell, GA, had its first research review, and within the last year the independent IRB achieved full accreditation from the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) of Washington, DC.
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has created a new measure now endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF) that will require health plans for the first time to report all readmissions that occur within 30 days of discharge something that happens to about a fifth of Medicare patients.
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For years, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) state operations manual has had guidelines for surveyors to assess issues related to patient safety at hospitals.
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Everyone knows that in order to have the kind of hospital that gets an A grade in safety from The Leapfrog Group, you need to have an organization whose culture values safety. But how do you know that you do? And is there a way you can measure it?
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As the National Committee for Quality Assurance hopes that all-cause readmission rate reporting by health plans will assist in creating more consideration of patient care across the continuum, the National Quality Forum (NQF) hopes a new measurement framework for multiple chronic conditions will likewise help improve care in and out of the hospital.
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