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The 2011 changes to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Health Service (PHS) regulations for reporting investigator conflicts of interest may still be causing confusion for researchers and IRBs.
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With its last survey in December 2006, Faith Regional Health Services ended up in conditional status.
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When The Joint Commission revised its medical staff standard in 2007, there was tumult in the field.
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Beth A. Duthie, RN, PhD, director of patient safety at NYU Langone Medical Center, wasn't surprised by findings in the study "New nurses' views of quality improvement education" published in the Jan. 10 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
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She watched the young nurse getting chastised for making an error and could see the fear in her face as her manager's voice rose in anger. The young nurse was put on indefinite leave. That's what happens when you make mistakes, she thought to herself.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2007 stipulated a five-year period in which verbal orders must be "dated, timed, and authenticated promptly by the prescribing practitioner or another practitioner responsible for the care of the patient, even if the order did not originate with him or her.
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It's nothing new. Compliance with verbal orders has been a struggle for hospitals for more than 25 years. Many experts Hospital Peer Review spoke with compare verbal-order compliance to hand-washing compliance. It's behavioral. It's something we know we have to do. And it's not a matter of ill-intentioned practitioners. It's a matter of time and logistics.
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While Rebecca Walker, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Social Medicine Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says she does not "mean any one thing" by the use of the term "justice," she does have justice concerns regarding the use of psychosocial criteria in determining individuals who are selected to receive organs from donation for transplantation.
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A surgeon and a pediatrician are among the four American physicians have been named as recipients of the first Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards.
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With the advent of consumer-directed health care (CDHC), two professors argue, contrary to the common notion that physicians should ignore financial considerations when treating patients, that it is entirely appropriate for physicians to be sensitive to a patient's financial position when a patient is paying out of pocket.
