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Researcher: Measure the Quality and Efficacy of IRBs
While it is intuitive that IRB oversight effectively protects human research subjects from ethical breaches and other risks, there is surprisingly little data on the quality and performance of review boards.
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NIH Marshalling Data Defenses for All of Us Project
In a disarmingly frank lecture in an ethics training course at the National Institutes of Health, a leader of the landmark All of Us project shared some of the concerns that come with the immense responsibility of collecting data on 1 million people.
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New Common Rule Suggests Changes for Informed Consent Documents
IRBs often spend too much time wordsmithing informed consent forms and not enough time on the big issue of comprehension, one IRB director says.
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Research Offers Clues on How to Improve Informed Consent
Deciding to make informed consent as comprehensible as possible is the easy part. What is not easy is determining how to accomplish this goal.
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Beware of Good and Bad News About the New Common Rule
The revised Common Rule changes will go into effect on Jan. 21, 2019, but it is quite likely IRBs will be adjusting their processes without all of the federal guidance they need.
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Key Components of a Drug Diversion Program
Although drug diversion may be considered a rare event, investigations reveal that the practice could be going undetected in facilities that do not have a proactive prevention program.
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Employee Health Programs Stepping Up on Drug Diversion
Nurses face a confluence of risk factors for addiction, including long hours, risk of injury, and access to powerful medications.
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One-third of Long-term Care Workers Skip Flu Shot
A CDC 2017-2018 survey found that only 67% of long-term care workers were immunized.
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The Secret of Working Sick: ‘Don’t Mask, Don’t Tell’
With the wide variation and limited effectiveness of healthcare policies to prevent presenteeism in sick healthcare workers, has the situation devolved to unspoken policies of “don’t mask, don’t tell?”
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CDC Issues Draft Guidelines for Infection Control in HCWs
Culminating a long process of reviewing and updating current guidelines that are two decades old, the CDC recently published its new infection control draft guidance.