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A series of patient testimonies videoed for an initiative launched by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in Rockville, MD, shows the benefit of two-way communication between clinicians and patients.
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While a two-hour orientation on patient education provides a good introduction to resources and teaching methods at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, it is difficult to provide all the details in such a short time, says Brian M. French, RN, BC, manager of The Maxwell & Eleanor Blum Patient and Family Learning Center and The Knight Simulation Program at the hospital.
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Knowing how to develop an individualized teaching plan for patients is a skill each newly hired nurse must know at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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Many heart patients in India are too poor to afford pacemakers. However, a study has found that removing pacemakers from deceased Americans, resterilizing the devices, and implanting them in Indian patients "is very safe and effective."
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A new scoring system that can more accurately predict the life expectancy of a patient with advanced cancer in terms of "days," "weeks," and "months" is described in a study1 published in British Medical Journal.
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Research ethicists and others have long described the value of recruiting more minorities in clinical research (CR) trials, but the question is whether review boards have a role to play in advancing this goal.
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In a groundbreaking decision, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a technological breakthrough makes donating bone marrow a process nearly identical to giving blood plasma. This decision by the courts now makes it legal to compensate marrow donors, just as plasma donors are compensated.
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The ethics rule regarding biomedical and behavior research involving human subjects in the U.S., also known as the common rule, govern Institutional Review Boards (IRBs).
