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Readmissions Reduced to 7.8% with Nursing Intervention at Home
Hospitals can significantly reduce readmissions with a multilayered program tailored to the needs of individual patients, according to the experience of an Arizona health system.
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New Report on Research Integrity: Institutions Also Play a Role
It’s not just individual researchers who need to support scientific integrity. Institutions and environments also play important roles, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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Researchers Develop Three Strategies to Shorten Informed Consent Forms
One new study has an answer to overly long consent forms that might appeal to most people who work in human research protection: eliminate repetition.
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Watch Out for ‘Toxic’ Studies When Adding New Hospital to HRPP
When WellSpan Health merged with a community hospital, an unexpected problem came to the attention of the human research protection program -- having to do with 17 open studies at the hospital joining the WellSpan Health system.
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The Central IRB Rule Is Still On — For Now
Soon, all IRBs will need to be ready to contract with central IRBs on cooperative research studies. While many IRBs already participate in reliance agreements, they say it’s becoming more complex and will take time and practice to prepare organizations for the big change.
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The Big Chill: IRB Critic Says Changes Fall Short
IRB Advisor asked Zachary M. Schrag, PhD, to weigh in on his past concerns in light of the revised changes to the Common Rule.
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Social Research Exemptions and Common Rule: It’s Complicated
Social scientists, behavioral researchers, and their respective IRBs find themselves in the midst of a somewhat complicated debate about how and to what extent the Common Rule changes affect or exempt oversight of their endeavors by the Office of Human Research Protections.
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Employee Health Research Steps Up Protection of HCWs
A common truism is that “you can’t have patient safety without worker safety” — which makes intuitive sense, but lacks definitive data. A potential landmark study attempting to link the two has drawn the support of some major agencies and organizations.
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ADT Nurses Can Help Ease Bed Constraints, Patient Volumes
Managing patient throughput can be one of the biggest challenges for nursing units, with patients often remaining in the ED because there are not enough beds available on the unit, or there are not enough nurses to care for all of the patients.
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Inside-the-box Strategy Helps With Medication Management
Optima Health recently began using a new technology that includes a pill box so sensitive to weight that it can determine precisely which pill, and how many, were pulled.