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The How and Why of Returning Study Results
Returning a layperson summary of study results to research volunteers is the right thing to do that also could benefit the research community, several human research protection experts say.
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EU’s Requirements for Returning Trial Results
The EU’s European Clinical Trial Regulation requires clinical trial sponsors to create layperson-friendly content for the summary of results.
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EU Will Require More Clinical Trial Transparency — Will U.S. Be Next?
The European Union soon will require investigators to give people the kind of transparent, easy-to-access clinical trials information they’ve been conditioned to expect in the age of Google.
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Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Ratings Updated
CMS has updated the Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Quality Ratings to incorporate new measures that it says will provide more information for patients and family members. Five of six new measures will be used in the Five-Star Quality Rating calculations.
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Patients and Families Can Teach Safety
Researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts and several other institutions have concluded that it is feasible to engage patients and families in patient safety education.
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Hospitals and Physicians Benefit from Collaboration
A hospital in New York and an orthopedic physician practice have achieved a symbiotic relationship that includes a successful bundled payment initiative, and both parties say this kind of cooperation should be a goal for more healthcare organizations.
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Hospital Overcomes Us-vs.-Them with Doctors
After serving as a tanker and cavalryman for almost four decades in the U.S. Army, becoming the Commanding General of U.S. Army Europe, the Seventh Army, and spending more than three years in combat, Mark Hertling, Lieutenant General, U.S. Army (Ret.) needed a new challenge.
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Step Toward Bundled Payments
The IPPS rule could easily be retitled “Get Ready for Bundled Payments,” says Susan Nedza, MD, MBA, senior vice president of clinical outcomes management with MPA Healthcare Solutions, a healthcare analytics consultancy in Chicago. An emergency medicine physician, Nedza previously was a regional chief medical officer at CMS and a senior executive at the American Medical Association. She says the final rule is similar to MACRA, but with a great deal more complexity.
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Final Rule Changes Quality Initiatives, and More
The Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule for the 2017 fiscal year comes with some noteworthy elements, including requirements for new data collection, changes to several quality initiatives, and a change to the Two-Midnight rule.
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Meaningful Use Experience Can Help
One component of the MACRA addresses performance on the use of electronic health records, similar to the Meaningful Use program. An organization’s experience with Meaningful Use could be valuable under MACRA, says Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, assistant professor of health management and policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor.