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Violations of Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards may be occurring in plain sight, but someone has to go look in order to find them.
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Use a checklist that is unique to your work environment when doing safety walkthroughs, advises Rod R. Hart, RN, COHN, manager of health promotion and wellness at ODS Health, a Portland, OR-based provider of health plans.
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The carrot and the stick have worked in Washington state to reduce the number and severity of safe patient handling injuries.
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Clinical trial (CT) research is moving toward a performance-driven model in which sites increasingly will compete with top-performing U.S. sites and lower-cost sites in developing nations overseas.
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Genome research and accumulated knowledge is changing the way we understand disease and treatment, which, in turn, is changing clinical trials, an expert says.
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Managing a clinical research department is challenging for a variety of reasons. One of the most difficult issues involves staffing communication and retention.
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The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has published online its 2011 edition of the "International Compilation of Human Research Protections."
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG) now expects research institutions to monitor their own regulatory compliance and identify errors and overpayments.
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The last five years have been tumultuous years for the clinical research industry due to the global economic downturn and other trends that are dampening revenues, experts say.
