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Orientation for Ethics Consultants? Some Have None at All
Institutions should re-evaluate their orientation practices for ethics committee members that perform ethics consultations, suggests recent research.
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Ethics Needs of Pediatric EDs More Prevalent
Ethical challenges in pediatric EDs are more prevalent than in adult EDs, found a recent study. Researchers also found that nurses voice specific moral distress issues that are different than adult EDs.
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Informed Consent Challenges When Subject Is in ICU
ICU patients frequently lack capacity to provide informed consent for clinical research due to multiple factors. However, the presence of one or more of these characteristics does not automatically designate a potential subject as lacking capacity to provide his or her own informed consent.
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Ethics of Industry-Neurosurgeon Relationships
Conflicts of interest are inherent to surgical innovation and can be handled in an ethically sound manner, concluded a recent literature review.
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Growing Evidence That Surrogate Decision-makers Need Help
Surrogates reported better-quality communication with a family support intervention, found a recent study.
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Research Ethics Groups Can Complement IRB Oversight
The increasing complexity of human subjects research has driven the development of research ethics consultation services, which can complement the oversight role of IRBs.
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Simplify Numbers to Help Subjects Better Understand Informed Consent
Poorly conducted informed consent often comes down to how researchers present the numbers.
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Can Herbs Improve Endurance? Adaptogens and Athletic Performance
The term “adaptogen” appears to have been coined by Russian researchers in the 1950s to describe medicinal botanicals with the potential to increase stamina and survival in stressful environments.This article summarizes the results from a literature search on more clinical studies on several adaptogens used to improve athletic performance.
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Tips for Informed Consent on GPS Data
If location data will not be erased in a study, how should IRBs explain the risks in informed consent communications?
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Coffee Consumption and Mortality
After rigorous evaluation using multiple statistics, an inverse relationship between coffee intake and all-cause mortality was demonstrated consistently across the racial/ethnic groups examined.