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Two years ago, Baylor College of Medicine had a dilemma: double its staff to accommodate the increase in study protocols being submitted to its IRB or find an electronic solution to its problem. They chose the latter.
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The Baylor College of Medicine in Houston has a prescribed inquiry process for complaints generated by human subject research at the institution, says Kathleen Motil, PhD, MD, associate professor of pediatrics and chair of two of the colleges IRBs.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) last month issued a nationwide ultimatum to its medical centers involved in research to shape up or else.
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Nearly every hospital has them, and most doctors have seen them, treated them, and agonized over them. They are patients with a slim, if not nonexistent, chance of recovery, who continue to receive intense, invasive, and costly procedures because there is no other clear alternative.
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Patients with severe, irreversible brain injuries present unique ethical challenges to physicians and hospital ethics committees. For patients with no chance of recovering an interactive, conscious state, which treatments are appropriate and which are unjustifiably invasive and pointless?
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VA mandates review of research programs; Partial-birth abortion ban approved by Senate.
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This article contains an excerpt from the ethics guidelines of the American Medical Association (AMA): E-2.037 Medical Futility in End-of-Life Care.
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According to a recent analysis by the Chicago-based American Medical Association (AMA), 18 states are experiencing a medical liability crisis, with residents unable to get needed medical care because physicians there cannot afford insurance premiums for medical malpractice coverage.
