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Researchers at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, have developed a novel approach to assessing the potential social risks to participants in a research study before the study commences.
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When researchers want to survey underage students in school settings, it's obviously necessary to get permission from the children's parents. But exactly how that permission is best obtained has been a matter of debate.
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While passive consent may not be the preferred way of obtaining parental permission to survey underage students, researchers say there will continue to be some situations in which it's the best and perhaps only practical choice.
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Large compensation to subjects for their participation in a study is considered a red flag by many IRBs, who worry that it could provide undue inducement to join a study without considering its risks.
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In this question-and-answer session, Mark Schreiner, MD, chair of the Committees for the Protection of Human Subjects (IRB) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and an associate professor of anesthesia in pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, discusses the issue of informed consent in cluster-randomized clinical trials.
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Nationwide, research institutions are cutting costs in response to the economic downturn. Funding for education and training has been one area hit fairly hard, and this made it a challenge for IRB offices to meet their educational demands.
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Often, problems that are a continual thorn in the side for patient access simply cannot be solved without the help of other departments. Likewise, you can spread no small amount of goodwill by helping others with their own troublesome "pain points." Here are some ways to improve cross-departmental relationships:
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Rushing by a registration area on your way to a meeting with a hospital administrator, you think you hear an edgy tone in an access employee's voice while she's answering a patient's question. Do you stop to investigate further, or do you continue on your way?
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What's the most common complaint that Amy M. Kirkland, CHAA, patient access team leader for the emergency department at Palmetto Health Richland in Columbia, SC, hears from patients? Hands down, it involves frustration over long wait times.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has published an interim final rule incorporating provisions of the Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health (HITECH) Act related to HIPAA violations that significantly increase the penalties it can levee against employers and health care providers.
