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Outpatient surgery managers are ordering more surgical masks, asking staff and patients about recent travel to areas with swine flu outbreaks, and reinforcing hand hygiene in preparation for a potential swine flu pandemic.
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The most frequent request we get at our office is to troubleshoot facilities. This request comes from freestanding surgery centers, hospital ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), hospital operating rooms, and everything in between.
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If flight crews have to do it before takeoff, why shouldn't surgical teams do it before cutting into a patient?
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Research in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons indicates that electronic prescribing systems might allow greater efficiency at hospitals, which could result in long-term cost savings and improved quality of care.
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In trying to streamline the IRB process, institutions should look to other industries as an example, says David Dilts, PhD, director of the Center for Management Research in Healthcare at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
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A significant minority of IRBs at some of the nation's biggest medical institutions lack sufficient procedures to determine when IRB members have industry relationships that could pose a conflict in their work.
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When they set out to create a research network to conduct clinical trials in the psychiatric care of children and adolescents, researchers at Duke University's Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) knew IRB issues would play a major role.
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The University of Louisville in Louisville, KY, has developed a program that serves as a dual-purpose human subjects research educational program, helping both doctoral students and experienced research professors and others.
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The Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Projection Programs (AAHRPP) of Washington, DC, has found in an ongoing study that federal investigators find fewer problems in studies conducted at AAHRPP-accredited organizations.
