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Natriuretic peptide levels (BNP, NT-proBNP) are of prognostic value in general populations, but whether they add information to other known risk factors for cardiovascular outcomes is less clear.
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The authors sent a survey questionnaire to almost 800 hospices. Responses were obtained from 414. The survey asked an administrator whether or not their facility had admitted patients with active ICDs, whether any of these patients had been shocked in the past year, and whether any patient had received multiple shocks.
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FDA is reviewing safety of TZDs; SSRI use with tamoxifen; Metformin smells like fish; FDA Actions.
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When a family is adrift on the unfamiliar waters of pediatric research, it helps to have a guide and translator.
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The stress of dealing with a critically ill newborn did not prevent parents from making informed decisions about enrolling their child in research, according to a study conducted using a common competence assessment tool.
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Rather than blind, call it a "deaf spot." The adverse event reporting from clinical trials that helps inform conclusions about a drug's safety has a crucial hole in it the voices of actual patients taking the drug.
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One issue regarding IRB submission compliance that often is overlooked has to do with the complexity of IRB forms.
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Electronic IRB systems can be an efficient way to improve human subjects research compliance, but as one institution has found, these also can be a source of compliance problems.
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The quote above is a familiar truism of human subjects protection. Nevertheless, many institutions still spend a lot of time grappling with the documentation of informed consent and precious little looking at how well the process of informed consent actually informs and prepares subjects for making a decision about research participation.
