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IRB members and research offices need to add the Guatemalan experiment to their human subjects research training and redouble efforts to educate the public about the high level of ethics and protections in research projects today, experts say.
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Amazon's Mechanical Turk offers investigators the chance to survey thousands of respondents quickly and cheaply via computer while protecting their anonymity. Once IRBs understand how the system works, approval should be a slam dunk, right?
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Here, a person can purchase a testing kit, submit a saliva sample, and access a secure online report regarding his or her genotype that links results to research about disease risks, carrier risks, physical traits and drug responses. For an additional fee, the customer also can explore his or her ancestry and even link up with other customers whose DNA closely matches theirs.
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The CureTogether website allows participants to log in anonymously to answer questions about diseases or conditions they may have and the various treatments they have used, along with the effectiveness of those treatments.
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A man was given 10 times the normal dose of epinephrine, after presenting to an ED in June 2010 with an acute allergic reaction.
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A very sick elder with multiple chronic conditions presented to ED nurses at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix with vague symptoms including shortness of breath. Her initial EKG revealed a paced rhythm.
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You might assume that caregivers of asthmatic children probably understand how to use inhaled corticosteroids, but a recent study shows this might not be the case.
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Of 21,112 sickle cell disease patients in eight states who were hospitalized or treated and released from hospital emergency departments in 2005 and 2006, 40% returned to the ED for treatment of pain or were rehospitalized within 30 days.
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Patients with a mechanism of injury relating to chest trauma, such as penetrating or blunt trauma, are more likely to require a chest tube, says Shelley L. Sides, RN, MSN, EMT-I, trauma coordinator at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, ME.
