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The University of CaliforniaBerkeley's office for the protection of human subjects has developed new guidance for investigators involved in Web-based research. One of the main sections of the guidance involves informed consent issues.
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As IRBs continue to contemplate various models of centralized review for multisite studies, projects have begun to pop up, trying out these models.
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When the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released its policy regarding data sharing for NIH-supported genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in 2007, officials at the University of Washington in Seattle knew it would have an effect on their operations.
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The report prepared for the University of Michigan about international research conducted there lays out a series of recommendations that can aid other institutions' investigators and IRBs.
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IRBs and investigators sometimes waste time on unnecessary IRB submissions. A simple initial review triage checklist can eliminate this problem, one IRB has discovered.
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With federal regulators shifting toward policies that would facilitate more central IRBs for multisite research, human subjects research protection offices need to take note and develop guidelines and tools for handling shared IRB responsibilities in multisite trials, an expert says.
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You know there is a problem when the average wait time to see a provider is in the four-to-five-hour range, and 3% to 7% of incoming patients are routinely leaving the ED without being seen (LWBS).
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The Joint Commission (TJC) is in the process of developing new tools, solutions, and performance measures aimed at improving the processes used to transition patients from one health care setting to another.
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While studies show that most people come to the ED because of an urgent or emergent medical concern, some people wind up in an emergency setting because they are not plugged in to the kind of social or medical resources that could more appropriately meet their needs.
