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When The Joint Commission released information on how to narrow the communication gap between patients and health care practitioners to improve patient safety, some people in the field of patient education said, "It's about time."
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Love your liver, says Thelma King Thiel, chairwoman and CEO for Hepatitis Foundation International based in Silver Spring, MD. Thiel would like this statement to be as common as "Fasten your seatbelt."
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A web site designed by Boston's Children's Hospital to better educate parents about pediatric research has won the top award for best practice in human subjects protection by the Health Improvement Institute.
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The debate about the appropriateness of placebos in clinical trials recently spilled over into the pages of the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, where two obstetricians and a representative of the national public-interest watchdog group Public Citizen wrote to complain about a published study of an antiviral drug used to prevent herpes outbreaks in pregnant women.
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Many of the same ethical issues need to be considered for on-line research as with any other type of research, but there are a few differences, an expert says.
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A California IRB that had turned down a proposed study of cigarette sales in two San Francisco neighborhoods, instead found itself to be the object of scrutiny in the form of a journal article about its decision.
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When the University of California, San Francisco's IRB denied a plan to have volunteers attempt to buy single cigarettes illegally at neighborhood stores, they cited the following concerns:
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When faculty and researchers' anger and complaints rose heavily against a university's IRB, a new vice chancellor of health sciences took charge, hiring someone to answer the criticism through policy and personnel changes.
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The IRB at East Carolina University of Greenville, NC, was able to satisfy investigators' complaints and improve response times, partly through an overhaul of its policies and procedures.
