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Social Media Research Recruitment Checklist
The following are key points summarized from a recently published checklist for IRB evaluation of social medial recruitment proposals from investigators.
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Ethical Issues of Research Recruiting on Social Media
Not surprisingly, the exploding social media landscape is fraught with ethical intrigue for researchers who seek to recruit human research subjects for clinical trials.
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No ROMP in the Park: The Complex Intersection Between QI and Clinical Research
Somewhere between typical human research and clinical practice, there is gray area assigned the acronym ROMP — “research on medical practices” — that includes activities such as continuous quality improvement, comparative effectiveness research, and electronic medical record review, the authors of a new study explain.
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A Fresh Method to Adverse Event Tracking in Behavioral Studies
Researchers in Texas studied a state-of-the-art adverse event monitoring program for behavioral health clinical trials.
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Rude Parents Can Affect Quality of Care
Clinicians may unknowingly lower the quality of care after a pediatric patient’s parents are rude, according to a recent study.
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Maternity Quality Improving, Early Electives Almost Gone
Efforts to reduce the rate of early elective deliveries have been a huge success, with the rate declining to just 1.9%, according to the latest report from The Leapfrog Group, a Washington DC-based nonprofit representing employers and other purchasers. That rate is the lowest since Leapfrog began collecting maternity care quality data.
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Parent-reported Errors May Not Make It to Medical Record
Parents notice a significant number of medical errors but their reports sometimes do not make it into the medical record, according to a recent study.
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$1.3 Million from Big Data QI
A Maryland hospital has gone from losing $1.2 million in quality-based reimbursement in one year to gaining $1.3 million the next year, after implementing several quality improvement initiatives using big data.
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Hospitals Collaborate to Reduce Aspirational Pneumonia
The two hospitals in Jefferson County, WI, both had higher readmission rates than the state average, so they decided to collaborate and look for the cause and a solution. They were surprised at what they found.
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Behavioral Healthcare in ED Improved with Telepsychiatry
Quality of care for behavioral health patients in the ED has been dramatically improved at Rideout Regional Medical Center in Marysville, CA, with a program that aims to get professional help to people in need as soon as possible. In addition, the ED dramatically reduced its length of stay for these patients.