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Ethical Challenges of Paying Addicted Participants
Financial compensation and HIV/HCV testing elicited trust and motivated an addicted population to participate in research, according to the authors of a recent report examining the ethical issues that can arise when intravenous drug addicts are paid for their research participation.
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Small World, Big Data: International Research Collaborations
The National Institutes of Health has encouraged international collaboration in the Human Genome Project and other precision medicine research.
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Researcher: Measure the Quality and Efficacy of IRBs
While it is intuitive that IRB oversight effectively protects human research subjects from ethical breaches and other risks, there is surprisingly little data on the quality and performance of review boards.
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NIH Marshalling Data Defenses for All of Us Project
In a disarmingly frank lecture in an ethics training course at the National Institutes of Health, a leader of the landmark All of Us project shared some of the concerns that come with the immense responsibility of collecting data on 1 million people.
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New Common Rule Suggests Changes for Informed Consent Documents
IRBs often spend too much time wordsmithing informed consent forms and not enough time on the big issue of comprehension, one IRB director says.
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Research Offers Clues on How to Improve Informed Consent
Deciding to make informed consent as comprehensible as possible is the easy part. What is not easy is determining how to accomplish this goal.
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Beware of Good and Bad News About the New Common Rule
The revised Common Rule changes will go into effect on Jan. 21, 2019, but it is quite likely IRBs will be adjusting their processes without all of the federal guidance they need.
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Presenteeism: Working Sick Appears to Be Endemic
Healthcare facilities should have specific criteria clarifying when infected healthcare workers should stay home, as gray areas and disincentives currently result in exposures to patients and colleagues, the CDC reports.
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CDC Drafts Infection Control Guidelines for HCWs
The CDC has issued draft guidelines for preventing infections in healthcare workers, urging collaboration between infection preventionists and employee health professionals. The guidelines, which are open for comment through Dec. 14, recommend that occupational health services engage administration and other departments in infection prevention activities.
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Get Patients ‘Up’ to Reduce Pneumonia, Other HAIs
The American Hospital Association’s “Up” campaign can reduce the incidence of nonventilator-associated pneumonia, the leading HAI in a recent study. The campaign urges basic interventions that reduce patient harm.