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">"Tagging," or naming, a project is often credited with creating a sense of ownership and empowerment for those involved.
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A new access career ladder is in the works at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo, MI,...
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A standard specification for an electronic "continuity of care record" (CCR), a core set of patient data that can follow patients as they receive care at different clinics, hospitals, and physician offices, has been released ...
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As the story developed in headlines from around the world it grew from questions about ethical lapses on the part of a South Korean stem cell researcher to his admission of fake data.
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The recent headlines and controversy over the resignation of a South Korean investigator who admitted to ethical lapses and fraudulent data have raised concerns among IRBs and others in the research industry.
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Every other week, those most directly involved in protecting human subjects in Vanderbilt Universitys research programs meet in an effort to ensure that the universitys policies and procedures are implemented consistently across its four institutional review boards.
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Much of social-behavioral research is, at its heart, the study of social relationships between ourselves and our family, our friends, our coworkers, and others in our lives.
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An IRB data management software system currently being rolled out at institutions across the country gives IRBs the ability to minutely tailor their own systems and to suggest their own additions.
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Formal ethics training and education for community representatives who serve on IRBs or otherwise provide an ethical perspective regarding human subjects research is one area of research training that has been overlooked by many institutions.
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The Ethical Force Program, a collaborative effort of the American Medical Association (AMA) to develop health care systemwide performance measures for ethics, will be field-testing a tool kit on patient-centered communication with diverse populations from March to December 2006 with eight volunteer hospitals and eight physician groups.
