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During a recent unannounced Joint Commission survey at Presbyterian Healthcare in Charlotte, NC, staff underwent a rigorous, in-depth process, says Paula Swain, MSN, CPHQ, FNAHQ, director of clinical and regulatory review.
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The software demands of smaller IRBs and larger ones can be very different, and its hard to meet everybodys needs with a single program. So Third Sky Inc. doesnt try.
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Four times a year, staff and board members from IRBs around the St. Louis area get together to talk about the issues that concern them, in an effort to learn from each other and to jointly sponsor educational programs.
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The latest round in the ongoing debate between IRBs and social and behavioral researchers about the scope and effectiveness of IRB review has come in the form of a white paper, Improving the System for Protecting Human Subjects: Counteracting IRB Mission Creep, released late last year by the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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The University of Southern Californias Office for the Protection of Research Subjects provides tips on how to identify human research studies in its booklet, Is Your Project Human Subjects Research? A Guide for Investigators.
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Mission creep among IRB work occurs when research institutions and IRBs permit fear of missing something to rule their decisions, an expert says.
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The problem of how to handle quality improvement (QI) projects resulted in a research project that explored the intersection between research and quality improvement and ethical oversight.
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The Duke University Health System in Durham, NC, has responded to patients' efforts to gain more information about how two hospitals mistakenly washed surgical instruments in used hydraulic fluid instead of detergent and failed to notice the mix-up for weeks. Approximately 3,800 patients were exposed to the contaminated instruments during surgery.
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A Pennsylvania hospital reports that it is seeing tremendous results from a computerized order entry system (CPOE), with an 85.7% decrease in improper doses and a 76.8% decrease in medication omissions.
