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How Can IRBs Best Handle Ethical Conflicts in Social Media Research?
IRBs often review protocols in which investigators are using social media as a recruitment tool or a way to inform study participants about a particular disease. They might also use social media to keep tabs on potential or current research subjects. All of these intersections in the use of social media and human research protection can raise ethical red flags.
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How IRBs Can Fill in the RAC Gap
With changes to how gene therapy research is reviewed and regulated, IRBs will need to do more on their own to ensure study participant safety.
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The RAC Is Disappearing — What Will IRBs Be Missing?
The NIH has published new guidelines to streamline gene transfer research by eliminating RAC’s pre-review role and closing a national database of gene transfer studies.
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Quick Wins: Blood Draws, Infection Rates, Sepsis
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has had success with several quick wins through the kind of quality improvement effort that yields meaningful change without requiring a lot of time, money, or effort.
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‘Purposeful Rounding’ Mixes Security, Clinical Teams to Help De-Escalate Tense Situations
Concerned about the rise in workplace violence across the United States, administrators at St. Louis-based SSM Health decided they needed to look for new solutions to the problem in their network of hospitals. They came up with “purposeful rounding,” a concept based on the idea that if security personnel are more integrated into the care team, there is a better chance of de-escalating behaviors so situations do not turn into major disruptions or violent acts.
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Be Wary of Healthcare Workers Tampering, Switching Meds
Beginning well before the ongoing national opioid epidemic, drug diversion by addicted healthcare workers has caused repeated outbreaks, exposing thousands of patients to bloodborne pathogens.
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Study: Trust in Physicians Declined When Industry Ties Reported
Research suggests that when patients know that individual doctors receive industry payments, the patients trusted those specific doctors less. The researchers found that transparency negatively affected both patient trust in their own doctors and in the medical profession.
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Microsoft Breach Reveals Risk From Cloud-Based Data Storage
A recent attack on email servers at Microsoft raises questions about the security of protected health information on servers that healthcare organizations use.
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Jussie Smollett Incident Shows Need for HIPAA Training, Audits
Firing employees after improper snooping can be appropriate after the fact, but the better solution would be to stop the intrusions in the first place, experts say.
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Defense Verdict Vacated in Case of Patient Death Due to Alleged Negligent Preoperative Care
While this case focused on an important legal procedural question, it reveals the types of evidence that may be properly used against healthcare providers in pending malpractice actions.