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What can possibly be more frustrating than walking into a hospital and being treated poorly?
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At Anaheim Memorial Medical Center, a 224-bed acute care hospital in Orange County, CA, surveyors from The Joint Commission were so impressed with the handoff communication process for perioperative services, they asked for a sample of the hospital's tool.
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Rude remarks, intimidated staff, unresolved conflicts between leaders, and abusive behavior your organization will need to have effective processes in place to address all of these scenarios.
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As funding barriers are slowly being chipped away in California and some other parts of the country, increasing numbers of institutions are forming stem cell research oversight committees (SCROs), or embryonic stem cell research oversight committees (ESCRO), which often have some overlapping responsibilities with IRBs.
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The archives of medical colleges and hospitals can be a rich source of information for historians interested in how health care has been delivered throughout our nation's history. Old case files, collections of physicians' personal papers, even old photographs were donated to archives so that others could learn from them decades later.
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In the absence of changes to HIPAA that would clarify the use of the privacy rule in historical medical archives, institutions, archivists and IRBs are left to sort through the complicated issues themselves.
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As stem cell research increases in California and elsewhere, IRBs and institutions are investing time and resources in establishing new oversight committees and writing new policies and procedures.
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Small IRB offices often do not have cross-trained or back-up staff in the event the IRB administrator is unexpectedly absent. So what happens when the people filling in cannot find the right forms or records or schedules?
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When researchers are attempting to persuade subjects to answer questions about themselves, whether on the phone or by filling out a form, sometimes the altruism of participating in research isn't enough.
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No matter what other valid, necessary precautions you have in place, the effort to thwart infant abduction all centers on limiting access by people who shouldn't be on the newborn unit.
