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Like many outpatient surgery facilities, you face drug shortages. You might have felt relief that youve been able to rely on compounding pharmacies to obtain the drugs you need in the single-use dosage you need until you learned about a nationwide meningitis outbreak from contaminated steroid medications originating at a Massachusetts compounding facility.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the final rule for ambulatory surgery center (ASC) and hospital outpatient department (HOPD) payments in 2013.
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Ninety percent of informed consent disputes involve disagreements about who said what and when, according to an analysis of 481 malpractice claims and patient complaints from Australia involving allegations of deficiencies in the process of obtaining informed consent.
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With the elections over, the majority of the country has spoken. Like it or not, healthcare is going to irrevocably change in the United States. There are challenges to say the least, but there are also lots of opportunities for the U.S. healthcare industry as we start down this path.
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One of the biggest challenges IRBs face is keeping up with ethical issue updates during an ever-evolving period technologically, experts say.
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Three large Ohio academic Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) institutions recently formed an IRB collaboration to allow a central IRB review during multisite studies. This was the first time CTSAs collaborated in this way, and it could serve as a best practice for other research institutions and CTSAs, experts say.
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Informed consent forms have one very daunting characteristic: They are visually numbing.
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To ensure that a proposed study or clinical trial can fulfill its goals and remain within ethical guidelines, some IRBs have mandated that protocols go through scientific review prior to submission. The purpose of the review is to ensure that studies are built on a solid scientific foundation to achieve the objectives.
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Researchers and physicians are increasingly speaking out on the issue of the geriatric population being excluded from clinical trials.
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Researchers using the Internet for recruitment and for electronic surveys have discovered that problems with online fraud can undermine the ease and efficiency of Web-based recruiting, an expert says.
