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Its a staple of undergraduate psychology studies the research requirement, in which students agree to sign up for surveys and other low-risk psychology research activities in exchange for academic credit.
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Research in family medicine is a diverse field, encompassing everything from practice-based research to educational studies to research involving communities such as American Indian reservations.
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Intermountain Health Care Urban South Region of Provo, UT, revamped its IRB process with a goal of reducing its lengthy response time and improving quality in IRB submissions.
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When the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) speaks, people listen. That was certainly the case when it began to issue its National Patient Safety Goals; health care professionals sat up and took notice and immediately began designing processes for complying with the new standards.
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Pay-for-Performance programs can improve both medical care and quality of life by giving health care providers a financial incentive to seek measurable improvements in the health of their patients, it was reported in a November 15, 2005 National Press Club briefing in Washington, DC.
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The Ethical Force Program, a collaborative effort of the American Medical Association (AMA) to develop health care systemwide performance measures for ethics, will be field-testing a tool kit on patient-centered communication with diverse populations from March to December 2006 with eight volunteer hospitals and eight physician groups.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the final Hospital CAHPS (HCAHPS) survey instrument. The HCAHPS survey is the first national attempt to standardize patients satisfaction with care in order to make apples to apples comparisons.
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Particularly disturbing are new reports in four states of infections in patients previously thought to be at low risk for C. diff.
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