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Hospitals often have nurses call patients after discharge in hopes of improving their satisfaction ratings. A new study shows that there are a couple of very good reasons to provide these calls, but a boost in reported patient satisfaction is not one of them.
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A nine-month study at a New York State hospital has shown that a well-planned transitional care program for heart failure patients can result in reduced readmissions, hospitalization costs, mortality rates, and length of stay.
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Adverse drug event (ADE) reporting often is inaccurate, has omissions, and sends unnecessary information to IRBs, an expert says.
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Everyone does more work with less time these days. So how can an IRB make new board member training effective without being time demanding? One IRB has found that the answer is to hold brief educational sessions during its board meetings.
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Human research protection program staff at the VA Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, AL, knew there was a problem with the IRB's expedited review process.
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[Editor's note: Valerie Bonham, JD, executive director of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, answers these two questions about the new International Research Panel formed this year by President Barack Obama.]
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When consultant Jeffrey Cooper talks to IRBs about using the flexibility of federal regulations to change their procedures, he can see that the message doesn't always get through.
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Five years ago, a panel of researchers and others involved in social and behavioral sciences convened to explore concerns about the scope and effectiveness of IRB review.
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How do you bridge the gap between an IRB that believes all of the work you do is subject to oversight and a faculty that thinks none of it is?
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When a researcher breaches a cultural divide to study a group of people, he or she needs more than a translator to convert documents from one language to another.
