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In November 2012, a multi-hospital healthcare system settled allegations of improperly compensating physicians from its many clinics for referrals of Medicare and Medicaid patients. It was alleged by the United States Department of Justice Civil Division that these actions were in direct violation of the False Claims Act and Stark Law. The hospital system agreed to pay $9.3 million to settle those allegations.
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Want a healthier, happier workforce? Try the team approach to wellness.
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The University of California at Berkeleys Consent Builder application relies on the simplified language and template structure previously developed by the institutions IRB office.
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Sometimes an IRB director will notice that board members lack interest in evaluation processes. Any attempt to assess how each member is doing might be shuffled to the back burner of the schedules of very busy people.
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A new research ethics program seeks to repair problems when investigators misbehave or are in noncompliance.
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The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) released a report taking IRBs to task over what they call inappropriate, indeed absurd, alterations in research protocols and overly stringent guidelines for study submission and approval.
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Years of improvements to the informed consent process and many hours of developing tools and templates to assist IRBs and investigators in fine tuning informed consent documents have helped pave the way for Consent Builder.
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While monstrous hurricanes are not a frequent occurrence, it always pays to be prepared. Hurricane Sandy was something of an anomaly, but cities and hospitals in the Northeast braced for the monster hurricane, putting plans in place to evacuate patients when needed and ways to continue operations even if the worst happened.
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Patient autonomy and parental rights are two primary ethical concerns involving access to emergency contraception, which was recently approved with over-the-counter status without age restriction.
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Clinical ethicists typically play an advisory role, and their recommendations arent always accepted or followed by the clinical team.