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The agencys Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), released in November, expands clinical trial registration and reporting guidelines for clinical trials that are required to register with ClinicalTrials.gov under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act (FDAAA).
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Community-based participatory research (CBPR) brings members of the community into a study as partners who are involved with subject recruitment, study design, informed consent, and other aspects of research. Community partners can include tribal councils, religious organizations, neighborhood groups, and other social organizations.
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Patients who present to the emergency department (ED) more than once in a short amount of time for the same complaint or symptoms present some unique liability risks for emergency physicians (EPs), warns Kathleen Shostek, RN, ARM, CPHRM, senior consultant in the healthcare risk management and patient safety division of Sedgwick, a Memphis-based third party administrator for professional liability claims.
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Is malpractice litigation a real possibility due to an error made in the emergency department (ED) that harmed a patient?
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An Ebola patient presents to an emergency department (ED) and is either misdiagnosed and discharged or is not appropriately isolated and infects others. What is the liability risk for the emergency physician (EP)?
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In a fascinating case that raises more questions than provides answers, a Louisiana appellate court grappled with the issue of whether the Louisiana Medicaid program was required to pay for the out-of-state inpatient care provided to its Medicaid enrollee in Georgia after transfer from a Louisiana hospital emergency department.
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Military veterans who recently served in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other countries often return home with “invisible” healthcare needs that might be overlooked in community healthcare settings.
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Emergency providers determine whether to admit patients to the hospital every day, but a new study suggests that while many of these decisions are consistent and clear-cut regardless of region or hospital, for certain common, low-mortality conditions, some physicians are as much as six times more likely to admit patients than others.
