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As studies become geared toward narrow research questions, targeting specific groups, IRB members will have an even more challenging time resolving ethical dilemmas and weighing risks and benefits.
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Media attention on research conflicts of interest has made it imperative that IRBs be aware of a wider variety of potential conflicts of interest than what they may have considered in the past, experts say.
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It's an accepted truism among many in biomedical research: Blacks won't participate at the same rates as other ethnic groups, because of fear of being exploited, thanks to the legacy of the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
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IRB members and researchers are beginning to hear more about a new model for weighing risks and benefits in human subjects research. Called component analysis, it requires IRBs to weigh individual procedure risks and benefits against themselves.
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All home health agencies have policies to prevent the spread of infection but with recent focus on the threat of a pandemic, home health managers need to look more closely at how well prepared their agency will be ...
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When staff at the Hospice of Chattanooga in Tennessee provide wound care, they work to help the patient recover a sense of wholeness.
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Health care spending growth in the United States slowed for the third consecutive year in 2005; and The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced the elimination of the 2007 late enrollment penalty for any beneficiary eligible for the low-income subsidy for a Part D plan.
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While it is important for home health agencies to prepare to handle a flu pandemic, there are other infection control issues that agencies face more today than in past years.
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Home health, private duty, hospice, home medical (HME), and case managers encounter frequent instances of non-compliance. Diabetic patients do not stick to their diets.
