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Can you imagine spending almost three years renegotiating a payer contract? Thats exactly what the administrator did at Amherst-based Ambulatory Surgery Center of Western New York, with the help of a consultant.
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When adding new procedures at your facility, performing a financial analysis is a critical step.
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What is a good policy on cell phones in the operating room environment? We have phones going off all over the place in here. I find it very distracting!
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Baxter Healthcare Corp. in Deerfield, IL, is recalling all models of its Colleague Volumetric Infusion Pumps because they can shut down while delivering medication and fluids to patients.
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Behavioral surveys of adolescents always are a delicate proposition, requiring consent from parents as well as assent from the child and asking both to consider the possible implications of participation.
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As IRBs move to improve the quality of human subjects protection in international research, they should pursue a model of informed consent that begins long before an individual signs a consent document and continues afterward.
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Public trust in clinical trial research was damaged in the past year because of conflicts of interest issues that arose with the NIH and by front-page media reports about drugs that had been studied and approved, yet were found later to result in deaths among some people who used them.
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Obtaining informed consent from people with schizophrenia is a process fraught with difficulty, as the condition can impair a potential research subjects ability to recall the consent information he or she is given.
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Research into the intricacies of the human genome has opened up a new era for biologic and biomedical research. Investigators are poised to explore the almost unlimited potential to diagnose, treat and possibly cure and prevent many diseases once thought untreatable.
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What is the FDAs most important focus these days with regard to the clinical trial industry?
