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Vitamin D to Prevent Acute Respiratory Infections?
Vitamin D supplementation is associated with a decreased risk of respiratory infections, especially in those who had low circulating levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D.
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Migraine: Differences Between Males and Females
Hormonal and genetic differences factor into a greater prevalence and disability burden of migraine in teenaged girls and women; however, migraine is underdiagnosed and inadequately treated in boys and men.
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Troponin Highly Prognostic in Decompensated Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction
Among patients with acute decompensated heart failure and preserved ejection fraction, elevated troponin is associated with worse in-hospital outcomes and long-term survival, independent of other predictors.
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Conduct a QA/QI Research Program Risk Assessment
Human research protection programs (HRPPs) are required to assess their quality, efficiency, and effectiveness if they’re seeking accreditation. HRPPs can do this through ongoing quality assurance/quality improvement (QA/QI) programs. But sometimes the quality improvement program also needs to be assessed for quality.
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Creating an Optimal Research Training and Mentoring Program
A nine-year IRB chair veteran and a medical school’s associate dean identified gaps in their institution’s human research protection education. They noticed that online training was fine for general information, but came up short when investigators were struggling with specific protocol issues.
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IRB Has Variety of Self-Assessment, Staff Assessment Tools
An Indiana research compliance program found that IRB staff and board assessments help keep the program on track and running well.
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Researcher: Human Infection Trials for Zika Could Be Safely Performed
It sounds counterintuitive, but one of the main arguments for getting a Zika virus vaccine into human trials is that as susceptible people become immune through prior infection, it will be harder to test vaccine efficacy in a large population.
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NIH Ethics Panel Vetoes Zika Human Infection Trials
While there are reports of various Zika vaccine trials proceeding, one the most promising methods to quickly and accurately measure vaccine efficacy has come to a full stop.
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Proposed Changes to CMS Nursing CoPs
Hospitals avoid fines for deficiencies when nurses are updated on the CMS nursing chapter.
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Traumatic Amputations
Traumatic amputations can be extremely debilitating injuries that have long-term functional and psychological outcomes. The authors review traumatic amputations, diagnostic evaluation, and management.