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Tips for Researchers Looking to Recruit More Pregnant Black Women
It boils down to trust, communication, education, and building a presence within the community.
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Updated Guidance on Informed Consent in Stroke Management
A new position statement aims to help neurologists provide the highest quality patient care for ischemic stroke by providing ethical guidance on how to navigate the decision-making process for stroke patients who may struggle to provide consent.
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Ethicists Become Involved in Managing Aggressive, Violent Patients
A facility in Vermont created behavior response teams, with ethicists playing a major role in collaboration with other hospital leaders, a psychologist, security staff, and other stakeholders to better manage volatile situations and protect the well-being of patients and employees.
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Too Many Scientific Articles End Up Retracted
Over five decades, the authors of a meta-analysis discovered guidelines represented a small percentage of total retractions (0.3%). Scientific misconduct (including data fabrication, plagiarism, and duplication) was found in 62.3% of retracted studies. The number of retractions and misconducts increased from 1980 to 2014, but declined after 2015. The median time from publication to retraction significantly decreased over the study period.
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Preventing Age Disparities in Cancer Trials
A leading researcher explains why patients should have equity regarding their ability to access clinical trials, to the greatest extent reasonably possible, in this Q&A.
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Analyses: Older Patients Excluded from Many Research Studies
Investigators learned age disparities were worse for industry-funded trials; for trials with enrollment criteria restrictions based on age cutoffs or performance status; for trials that evaluated a targeted, systemic therapy; and for lung cancer trials.
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Lack of Basic Knowledge on Clinical Trials Makes Study Recruitment Harder
Survey respondents with a history of cancer and those who have heard of ClinicalTrials.gov knew more about trials. Such knowledge also was more abundant among college graduates and those who had been asked to participate in a trial.
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Recommendations Target Making Improvements in U.S. Organ Transplant System
The authors aimed for equity, transparency, and efficiency.
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Survey: OB/GYN Residents Feel Unprepared to Care for LGBTQ+ Patients
Lack of experienced faculty and curricular crowding were the two most commonly identified barriers.
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Physicians Might Discuss Medical Aid in Dying, Providing the Service Could Be Another Matter
Considered one of the most controversial subjects in medicine, some physicians might talk with patients about medical aid in dying, but providing the service could be a different story — for several reasons, both ethical and practical.