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For some patients Sally Neff, RN, BSN, sees, something as simple as calling their physician for an appointment presents challenges they can't overcome.
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If you want your employees to report to work during a pandemic, make sure you have plenty of antiviral medications. Let them know how you'll help them manage the unique work-life balance issues of an emergency, such as child care when schools are closed. And underscore how important they are to the organization, even if their duties are clerical or custodial.
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Data, data and more data. That's what you need to justify not only wellness programs, but your position.
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Gaining approvals from 36 IRBs for a multisite, multilingual epidemiologic study of tuberculosis gave Dolly Katz, who serves on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's IRB, insight as to what it's like on the other side of the protocol.
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Some larger research institutions in recent years have taken incremental steps to having an electronic IRB submission, review, and documentation process. But transitioning to a paperless process has been more of a challenge for smaller IRBs and institutions.
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No matter what size your IRB is, you can move to an electronic process for IRB submissions, reviews, and management.
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Keeping IRB chairs and members updated and well informed can be challenging when an institution's human subjects research is rapidly expanding.
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As the world faces its first flu pandemic in more than 40 years, researchers say slow, complicated ethics review processes hinder their ability to respond effectively to emerging infectious diseases.
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Taking steps now to streamline approval processes for fast-moving diseases will better prepare IRBs to handle not just the current H1N1 virus, but future viruses as well, says Raphael Saginur, MD, FRCPC, chief of the infectious disease division and chairman of the research ethics board (REB) at Ottawa Hospital in Ontario.
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Improving ease of access to potential research data while aggressively protecting identifiable patient information it's a goal that many institutions struggle with.
