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Experts: Population health needs to address mental health
White, middle-aged Americans have an increasing mortality rate due to behavioral and mental health issues, demonstrating the need for population health to address behavioral health.
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Here’s a snapshot of a model for case managers embedded with PCPs
Some healthcare organizations are finding that embedding case managers in primary care provider practices is an ideal way to help high-risk patients receive the care coordination and engagement they need to remain healthy.
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Case Management is Crucial to Population Health
The population health model in healthcare is gaining ground as the industry recognizes the benefits in quality improvement, reduced costs, and improved health.
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Staffing remains a big issue for IRBs in 2016
The job market for experienced and credentialed IRB directors and staff remains high as 2016 begins, but IRB offices continue to cope with increasing workloads and understaffing.
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IRB turns pediatric assent into video game
A children’s hospital’s human research protection program developed a video game to obtain assent from pediatric patients.
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Sample items from an IRB authorization agreement
The University of Pennsylvania developed an IRB of record relying site division of responsibility form that outlines what each IRB involved in the collaboration and authorization agreement will do.
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Strategies for establishing collaborative IRB review
Some research institutions are not waiting for the changes to IRB review suggested by the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and have already been developing models for collaborative review.
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Lean thinking can be well-suited for IRB office
The philosophy of Lean thinking and processes has branched from manufacturing and business into healthcare over the years, and now some IRB offices are finding that these types of continuous improvement processes work well when used to create greater efficiencies in the human research protection world.
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In their own words: Docs describe extended hours
How do physicians on the frontlines feel about the ongoing debate about their working hours? Here are some of the comments to a recent Washington Post article on the issue by people identifying themselves as physicians.
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Demands to Stop Controversial Work Trials
Refuting that it gave a green light to “highly unethical” research, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education won't rescind waivers of 2011 duty-hour requirements for physician training.