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IRB professionals might not have gotten into the business of protecting human subjects because of their love for mathematics and statistics. But many now are finding that tracking data and analyzing numbers helps them do their job better.
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When internal job mobility is stagnated, it can result in high staff turnover rates a problem no IRB wants to experience.
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IRB offices routinely handle protocol submissions that are incomplete or flawed in other fundamental ways. These problems cause roadblocks that slow down the IRB approval process and frustrate investigators and IRB staff alike.
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A recent analysis of clinical trials showed that researchers routinely ignored previously published and relevant clinical trials when conducting their own studies.
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Investigators, particularly when they are new to human subjects research, often fail to include all necessary information in their IRB applications because they are unaware of what's required.
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The state of Michigan has moved forward with its plan to store blood samples left over from screening newborns for medical conditions in a biorepository that will make the deidentified samples available for research.
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IRBs sometimes balk at studies that ask sensitive questions about topics such as sex and violence, based on concerns that participants may find them distressing.
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In today's healthcare environment, as patients are being discharged from the hospital sicker and quicker than ever before, some patients are in and out of the hospital as if they are going through a revolving door, says Catherine M. Mullahy, RN, BS, CRRN, CCM, president and founder of Mullahy & Associates, a case management training and consulting company based in Huntington, NY.
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For workers' compensation patients with chronic low back pain, spinal fusion surgery leads to worse long-term outcomes including a lower rate of return to work compared to nonsurgical treatment, suggests a study in the Feb. 15 issue of Spine.
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For patients suffering from chronic lower back pain, a new review of existing research finds that spinal manipulation is as helpful as other common treatments like painkillers, according to the Health Behavior News Service, part of the Center for Advancing Health.
