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As the hurricane season picks up and the potential for other types of emergencies continues, a research institution might find it necessary to transfer its IRB-approved research to another institution. Or an IRB simply might need to transfer a single study for a variety of reasons. Federal guidance on how to handle these contingencies now is available.
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IRBs could improve and expedite their review process by hiring someone to pre-review submissions, an expert suggests.
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A survey of nearly 5,500 cancer patients found that those with lower incomes were less likely to be enrolled in clinical trials, and more likely to be concerned about paying for participation in a trial.
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When you work to fix one problem in workplace safety, you may end up reducing other hazards to both workers and patients.
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About 73% of employers conduct criminal background checks on all job candidates, according to a 2010 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management, and another 19% of employers do so only for selected job candidates. They can be particularly important in healthcare when a job applicant must be trusted with vulnerable patients and data, but experts caution that background checks have limitations.
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If your facility is open as you read this, congratulations! There are a number of freestanding facilities that didn't make it through the past "dark years."
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According to The Joint Commission, retained surgical items resulting in death or permanent loss of function were the most frequently reported sentinel event in 2010 and 2011.
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Cyber attacks. Data thefts. System breaches. They're all on the rise, and healthcare is the no. 1 field at risk, according to a just-released Internet Security Threat Report 2011 Trends from Symantec Corp.1 Consider these recent examples from the outpatient surgery field:
