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CDC Offers Extensive Resources on Antibiotic Stewardship
The federal CDC in Atlanta offers a set of key principles to guide efforts to improve antibiotic use and, therefore, advance patient safety and improve outcomes.
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Hormone Replacement: Have We Made Progress Since WHI?
Vaginal estrogen may improve vaginal symptoms of menopause and does not increase the risk for endometrial cancer, stroke, or cardiovascular disease.
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Trends in OB/GYN Malpractice Litigation
In this review of medicolegal claims data from 2005-2014, obstetric and gynecologic surgery had the second highest average indemnity payment compared to other specialties, topped only by neurosurgery. Of the 10,915 claims identified, the majority (60%) were dropped, withdrawn, or dismissed; 31.1% of claims were paid by the defendant (90% before trial); and 7.5% were successfully defended by the physician.
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Antibiotic Stewardship Requires Hospitalwide Commitment
An effective antibiotic stewardship program requires significant commitment from top executive levels down to the bedside.
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New Treatment Option for Women at Risk of Fragility Fractures
A randomized trial demonstrated a reduced risk of fragility fractures in high-risk women with osteoporosis treated monthly with the monoclonal antibody romosozumab compared with weekly alendronate.
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Are Organ Transplant Recipients in a Trial Protocol Considered Research Subjects?
Research protocols to extend the viability period of transplant organs are of great interest, but does that mean organ recipients must give informed consent as research subjects? Here we enter an ethical impasse, that if adequately resolved could increase the supply of organs for transplant.
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PRIM&R Finds Itself Caught in State Travel Ban Controversy
The 2017 PRIM&R conference was scheduled for November in San Antonio, TX. All was well until the Texas legislature passed legislation in May 2017 that allows adoption providers to turn away potential parents, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families and others, based on the adoption providers’ religious beliefs.
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Informed Consent Conundrum: Making the Complex Concise
New language regarding informed consent in the revised Common Rule seems benign enough at first reading, but actually accomplishing the directives in a scientifically valid manner is a formidable undertaking.
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Finding a Path to Informed Consent for the Addicted
As an opioid epidemic ravages the country, a cutting-edge question on the frontier of neuroscience is: Can addiction be blocked in the brain? Even if it could, the question for IRBs will immediately be: Can an addict give informed consent?
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De-identifying Data in Qualitative Research Is Complex, Time-consuming
One of the more complicated issues social, behavioral, and education research investigators and IRBs might consider involves how to de-identify data for use in qualitative studies.