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Vast strides are being made in data collection methodology, and access to the same resources will help increase the commonality among benchmarking facilities. Nevertheless, benchmarking professionals argue, the practice of benchmarking is as much art as it is science, and interpreting data is as important as collecting them.
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Medical injuries during hospitalization resulted in longer hospital stays, higher costs, and a higher number of deaths in 2000, according to a study from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in Rockville, MD. The study, Excess Length of Stay, Charges, and Mortality Attributable to Medical Injuries During Hospitalization, was published in the Oct. 8, 2003, Journal of the American Medical Association.
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The RWJ University Hospital Foundation Inc. has improved the efficiency of its fundraising operations by switching to new software that allows more effective management of its donor database.
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IRBs and research institutions may have some disagreement and confusion over when its appropriate to send a pediatric research proposal to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for a 407 review.
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As awareness of IRBs and human subjects research protection increases among the public and staff at institutions, IRB members sometimes are asked to consider new gray areas regarding studies that typically havent made it to the IRBs radar screen.
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IRBs and the research community soon may have new guidance in defining and clarifying some of the gray areas in regulations of human subject protection.
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For more than two centuries, the small communities that make up the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, on the countrys most northeastern coast, were largely isolated from the rest of the world.
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It has been five years since a complaint from the father of a study subject was lodged about a longitudinal study at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond a complaint that precipitated a shutdown of all research involving human subjects.
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Question: Does the Food and Drug Administration require that an IRB have a certain number of members?
