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If your employer does not already have a comprehensive workplace safety program in place, one may soon be required.
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The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) has taken a strong position in favor of the Occupational Safety & Health Administration's proposed federal Illness and Injury Prevention Programs (I2P2) standard, including strengthening the requirements in certain ways beyond what California OSHA already requires, says Paul Papanek, MD, MPH, chairman of the board for the San Francisco, CA-based Western Occupational Environmental Medical Association.
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Latex gloves are back on the public agenda. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a proposed warning label for powdered gloves and is considering a ban on the use of powder in latex gloves and alternatives, even as hospitals greatly reduce their use of powdered gloves.
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Make sure your health care workers are handling hazardous drugs safely.
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The clinical research industry's well-documented inefficiency is like a rhinoceros stampede: everyone recognizes it, regrets it, but can't figure out how to stop it.
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Cato Research, a clinical research organization (CRO) in Durham, NC, maintains a database and metrics on all studies, continually comparing sites' predicted study enrollment with their actual performance.
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Research institutions put considerable time and resources into developing informed consent (IC) templates and tools to assist researchers as they seek ethics board approval, but they sometimes neglect to focus on the part that describes cost to participants.
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The human research protection program at Vanderbilt University of Nashville, TN, has created a flow chart that assists investigators with making decisions about how to insert cost language in study informed consent forms.
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The PRISMProject to Review and Improve Study Materialshas developed a quick reference guide for improving readability in informed consent and other research documents.
