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IRB Collaborations With Tech Companies Could Mean What to the IRB?
Tech companies increasingly are partnering with research institutions. These partnerships include sharing data and project collaboration. What IRBs will want to know as this trend continues is what it means from a human research protection perspective.
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Bypassing an IRB Review, Researchers Held Herpes Vaccine Trial on an Island
The human research protection community recently learned of a troubling clinical trial that involved private funding, a U.S. medical college researcher who died this summer, and a study held on a Caribbean island. The clinical trial was for a live attenuated herpes simplex virus-2 vaccine injected in human participants, and it was never reviewed by an IRB.
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Bundled Approach to Handoff Communication Delivers Significant Safety Dividends
With an estimated 80% of the most serious medical errors linked to communication failures, handoff processes are a rich target for improvement. There are numerous tools designed to help providers remember to convey the most important information when transitioning a patient to another provider, but one approach in particular has demonstrated in multiple studies that it can reduce medical errors and preventable adverse events substantially.
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Organization Expands Case Management for North Carolina Sickle Cell Population
North Carolina patients with sickle cell disease are a small population that experiences repeated and costly ED visits and hospitalizations. Community Care of North Carolina has 600 care managers statewide, who work primarily with Medicaid patients, matching them with 14 networks and care managers across the state.
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Orthopedic Nurse Navigator Helps Surgery Patients Stay Healthy
The Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement program helped the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Passavant reduce the percentage of total joint replacement patients who are discharged to a skilled nursing facility instead of home.
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Medicare Payment Codes Related to Care Management
Starting in 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services provided new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System codes for care management payment.
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Designers of Collaborative Behavioral Health and Primary Care Models See Growth in Future
Recent Medicare funding for care management services, related to integrated behavioral health and primary care, has provided more incentives for healthcare organizations to use this approach.
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Liability Protections for EMTALA Care Elusive for EPs
Although several states have enacted liability reform legislation for ED care, efforts at the federal level have been less successful. Here is a summary of legislation under consideration in Congress.
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Visit Volume Linked to Being Named in Claim
One in 11 EPs was named in malpractice claims during a 4.5 year period, according to a recent study. Total number of years in practice and visit volume were the only factors associated with being named as a defendant.
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When Psychiatric Patient Comes to ED, Consider Entire Hospital’s Capabilities
An attorney who worked on the case provides detailed information about a recent record-breaking EMTALA settlement.