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PRIM&R Finds Itself Caught in State Travel Ban Controversy
The 2017 PRIM&R conference was scheduled for November in San Antonio, TX. All was well until the Texas legislature passed legislation in May 2017 that allows adoption providers to turn away potential parents, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families and others, based on the adoption providers’ religious beliefs.
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Informed Consent Conundrum: Making the Complex Concise
New language regarding informed consent in the revised Common Rule seems benign enough at first reading, but actually accomplishing the directives in a scientifically valid manner is a formidable undertaking.
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Finding a Path to Informed Consent for the Addicted
As an opioid epidemic ravages the country, a cutting-edge question on the frontier of neuroscience is: Can addiction be blocked in the brain? Even if it could, the question for IRBs will immediately be: Can an addict give informed consent?
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IRBs Must Prepare for Studies Involving Transgender Populations
The transgender population has situational vulnerability that should be taken into account when IRBs review studies enrolling these individuals.
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Early Error Disclosure Training Prepares Residents to Provide Ethical Care
Role-modeling, a strong patient safety culture, and simulation training provided to interdisciplinary groups facilitate error disclosure, found several recent studies.
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Radiation Oncologists Want, but Often Lack, Palliative Care Training
Residents, practicing radiation oncologists, and program directors believe palliative care training is important, but education is lacking in some areas, according to multiple recent studies.
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Patients More Likely to Choose Do Not Resuscitate After Educational Video
Hospitalized patients who watched a video about code status choices were less likely to choose full code, and more likely to choose do not resuscitate or do not intubate, found a study of 119 patients hospitalized on the general medicine service at Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System in Minnesota.
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Study: Surrogates Sometimes Place Own Wishes Over Patient’s
Surrogate decision-makers are valuing what they think is best for the patient more than they value patient preferences in the process of making medical decisions for them, found a recent study.
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Ethical Debate Continues Over Genetically Modified Human Embryos
The first-known experiment creating genetically modified human embryos in the U.S. using a gene-editing tool called CRISPR reignited ethical debate on this type of research.
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Advance Care Planning Often ‘Useless’: Providers Can’t Always Access in EHRs
With electronic health records, patients’ advance care planning should be only a mouse click away. Too often, this isn’t reality.