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To enable senior leaders to gain knowledge about quality and safety performance within the organization the quality department should create a concise, yet complete, measurement report.
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Medical research in developing countries often is conducted by Western institutions, using their own IRBs to ensure the rights of participants who could be half a world away.
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Those advocating research into rare diseases often have an uphill battle, searching for funding and trying to garner public support for treating conditions that don't have the same widespread recognition as HIV or breast cancer.
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One of the truest sayings an IRB professional might hear is that you can't have burnout unless it's a really bright light to begin with, an expert says.
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When planning to expand an IRB office or start a new one to support one or more IRBs, the key principle to keep in mind is that one size does not fit all when it comes to IRBs, an expert says.
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IRBs reviewing protocols involving HIV drug-using populations sometimes find that it's impossible to anticipate all of the ethical issues that will arise during the trials.
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A patient needing a transplant for a vital human organ often waits months or even years before one becomes available.
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A patient needing a transplant for a vital human organ often waits months or even years before one becomes available.
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Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) still will be paid generally 65% of the hospital outpatient department (HOPD) payment in 2008, as was proposed in August, but the actual payment rates will vary from the ones proposed because the relative weights used are different than those proposed, according to the Federated Ambulatory Surgery Association (FASA).
