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Clinical trial sites and research institutions seeking improvements to their staff and IRB training programs might learn something from the best practices developed by Family Health International (FHI) of Research Triangle Park, NC.
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They are considered one of the most valuable teaching tools for doctors in training, yet they also are the topic of a highly charged ethical debate the bodies of newly deceased patients.
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Many hospitals have adopted more generous charity-care guidelines for uninsured patients after a barrage of publicity about aggressive hospital billing and collection practices and a spate of lawsuits alleging hospitals overcharged uninsured patients, according to a health care policy expert.
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For many patients dying of cancer, home is where they want to spend the last weeks of their lives. Their caregivers often spouses, life partners or children may be willing to give whatever care their loved one needs, but can find themselves overwhelmed, unsure, and at risk for depression and other health problems themselves.
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When hiring new physicians, health care practices might want to look beyond grade transcripts, according to a medical school professor in California who has determined that medical students who were disciplined in school for irresponsible attendance or patient care are nearly nine times more likely to be disciplined by their medical boards when they become practicing physicians.
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The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) plans to revise the sexual boundaries policy used by state medical boards in determining sexual boundary violations by physicians.
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The Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has begun an 18-month project to examine the field of vaccine development and use and to propose an ethical framework to help guide researchers, pharmaceutical companies, public health agencies, health care providers, and citizens regarding vaccines and their safe, effective, and ethical use.
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Are you aware of the benefits of using the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) to assess stroke patients, but concerned about the time required? At University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison, an abbreviated version of the NIHSS was developed, called The Emergency Triage Stroke Scale (ETSS), which takes only about two minutes to perform.
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Overcrowded waiting rooms, patients leaving without being seen, inpatients being held for hours. The Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation, a nonprofit organization, was founded in 2003 as a direct response to this current crisis in emergency medicine, says Dianne Vass, the groups executive vice president and chief operating officer.
