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Youve probably got a defense attorney or two giving you advice on how to avoid liability in slip-and-fall cases, but wouldnt it be great to hear from the other side? Imagine if a plaintiffs attorney explained, Heres how to win when my client sues you. Healthcare Risk Management found a plaintiffs lawyer willing to give you that view from the other side, with some tips about how you can best avoid writing his client a big check.
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Its probably not uncommon for patients to arrive at your facility with their own health care equipment, such as a home dialysis unit or insulin pump, not to mention personal items such as curling irons, computers, and hair dryers. Do you have a policy in place to make sure those items are safe? If you dont, you might be risking significant liability if those items end up injuring anyone.
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Its 3 a.m., and you get a call from the emergency department. The staff is in a heated dispute with a local police officer whos demanding information about a patient who assaulted another while waiting to be transferred to inpatient care. Your staff is worried about violating patient privacy. The officer is complaining loudly that the hospital is obstructing a criminal investigation. Whats a risk manager to do?
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Functional Decline in Peripheral Arterial Disease; Topical Capsaicin for Chronic Pain; Topical Tacrolimus Therapy for Vitiligo; US Prevalence and Impact on Axillary Hyperhidrosis; Mortality and Incidence of Cancer During 10-Year Follow-Up of the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S); Effects of Extended Outpatient Rehabilitation After Hip Fracture.
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IRBs may want to re-think their policies on evaluating research conflicts of interest in light of new studies indicating disclosure may not have its intended effect.
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Pharmaceutical researchers will have to register their clinical trials with a publicly accessible database if they expect to ever publish their findings in a top-flight medical journal, according to new requirements issued Sept. 8 by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
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Copernicus Group IRB of Cary, NC, sought accreditation to validate that the 8-year-old, independent IRB and human research protection program was on the right track with its human research protection program.
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One possible explanation for why IRB reviews of social-behavioral research pose complications and some confusion among IRBs and researchers can be found in the very different mindsets of the two parties.
