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When Ron Cranford became a doctor in the 1960s, hospitals didnt have ethics committees. There were no ethics consultants, not even any case law addressing such issues as physician-assisted suicide. Persistent vegetative state hadnt been coined, and Terri Schiavo was just a toddler.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) might have avoided one kind of controversy over the so-called morning-after contraceptive, but it created another by indefinitely delaying approval for the pill known as Plan B to be sold over the counter (OTC).
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The goals of palliative and end-of-life research are unimpeachable discovering methods to ease the suffering of dying patients and their families.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has released a draft of its proposed rule limiting the use of intentional dosing research on human subjects.
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There are federal regulations that are supposed to ensure IRBs have appropriate staffing levels, but respondents to the IRB Advisor 2005 Salary Survey could easily make one believe there are very few IRBs that meet that regulation.
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As IRBs grapple with the issues raised by social-behavioral research, they may also want to consider the concerns of researchers who in a recent study charged that delays in processing proposals and overly intense risk aversion have impeded valuable research.
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More than one-third of American medical students are not required to study medical ethics, according to survey results compiled by the American Medical Student Association (AMSA).
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In todays health care arena, case management duties and job descriptions are changing rapidly, often resulting in feelings of frustration and disconnection among case managers in the managed care industry.
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With the goal of boosting outcomes for health plan members, BlueCross Blue Shield of South Carolina has developed a pay-for-performance program open to hospitals and physician groups in the network.
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Drawing on 20 years of quality improvement experience, MPRO, Michigans Health Care Quality Improvement Organization, is bringing together hospitals, home health agencies, and physician practices to come up with solutions to communications barriers between providers, with the ultimate goal of improving the outcomes for the states cardiovascular disease patients.
