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Recognizing and re-emphasizing the fact that children are a distinct population of patients in the ED, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), and the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) have released a joint policy statement that includes guidelines for the care of children in EDs. The statement was published online in the journal Pediatrics.
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A few hours after a chest pain patient was worked up and discharged with a noncardiac diagnosis in a Virginia ED, he was brought back dead on arrival.
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(Editor's note: This is the second article in a two-part series. In the first article, we discussed the decision of the leaders of the EDs at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene, OR, to begin posting their waiting times on the Internet. In this installment, we examine the process they used to make sure the system was running smoothly before they officially started.)
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For the first time in several years, The Joint Commission standards and goals with the lowest compliance rates are not directly related to the delivery of health care.
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President Barack Obama's long-stated goal for universal health insurance could have a ripple effect on the human subjects research field, possibly removing an incentive for people to enter clinical trails.
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There have been a handful of bills introduced in the past few years that could have an impact human subjects research.
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The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) of Rockville, MD, announced in October, 2008, that Jerry A. Menikoff, MD, JD, is the new director. Menikoff also has served as the director of the Office of Human Subjects Research and has worked as a bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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When the Marshfield (WI) Clinic launched an ambitious biobanking project, organizers knew they'd need significant community buy-in.
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Despite general agreement that medicine and medical research need to do more to meet the needs of pregnant women, there still are serious roadblocks that prevent wider enrollment of women during pregnancy.
