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Provider's offices are no longer the "middleman" between schedulers and patients at Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, MI, due to a newly implemented process.
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IRB offices seeking to create a sustainable leadership role might need to re-organize, examining their current processes and culture, experts suggest.
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Like many institutions, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) uses audits of studies to find areas in human subjects protection that need improvement and to educate researchers to address them.
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IRB offices have evolved in the past 15 years. Early IRB offices often had limited support staff. But as the field of human subjects protection evolved, IRB offices' staffing needs increased, creating IRB office leadership roles and the need for more IRB coordinators and other support staff.
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A study by the US Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) found that e-prescribing is safe and effective, but still faces many barriers to widespread use.
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In the 25 years since the Picker Institute was founded to focus on patient-centered care, the organization has specialized in talking about the positive part of healthcare the things that should always be done that benefit the patient and family rather than about those never events that make headlines.
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A RAND study released in December looked at the use of performance measures and the barriers to using them.
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In the first weeks after The Joint Commission and SGS Group announced they would be offering joint accreditation and ISO certification to interested hospitals, SGS reported a fourfold increase in calls from hospitals curious about what ISO could do for them.
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Many times it takes significant changes in processes and/or policies to effect improvements in quality performance.
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A report from the Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General released at the end of October concluded that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services isn't addressing some of the serious events that happen in hospitals or letting The Joint Commission know about them in a timely manner.