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When an IRB reviews a proposal to pay research participants, members often have little more guidance to go on than their own gut feeling of what is appropriate and what is too much.
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Many people willing to participate in clinical research trials never do because they simply dont know about them or misunderstand the obligations involved, says a leading expert on supporting public research participation.
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Foreign objects retained after surgery now are considered sentinel events.
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Any effort to reduce surgical infections and their associated costs may run into a formidable hurdle: Operating room teams tend to assume theyre using best practices when theyre actually not.
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Pediatric falls require different strategies, not same old thing
Falls among elderly patients are high on the priority list for any risk manager, but what about your patients on the other end of the spectrum? Are you doing all you can to prevent falls among your youngest patients?
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Childrens Memorial Medical Center in Chicago and South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, NY, have instituted a number of strategies to reduce falls among its young patients.
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(Editors note: This is the second in a series of articles about the risks of using e-mail in health care. Next months issue will include the third in this series.)
Chances are good that you have a policy on the proper use of e-mail within your organization and when communicating with patients, but it probably is time for an update to keep pace with rapid advances in technology and the way people use e-mail.
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Two hospitals run by Duke University Health System in North Carolina were cited in a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) report for mistakenly washing surgical instruments in used hydraulic fluid instead of detergent and failed to notice the mix-up for weeks.
