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During a January 2006 survey at Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth (TX), there was an additional focus on disaster planning during the environment of care (EOC) session, reports Paula Chaloupka, MSN, RN, director of care coordination. "This provided us a great critique of our disaster planning process," she says.
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In their zeal to protect research participants from undue risk, are IRBs actually making them more vulnerable, by causing frustrated researchers to circumvent the IRB system?
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As IRBs work to ensure that women are fairly represented in clinical research, results from a new survey provide a disquieting message: More older women are uninterested in research and don't believe in participating.
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IRBs and research organizations continue to iron out privacy policies and details 10 years after a law was passed to require health care organizations to adhere to federal privacy rules under the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996.
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A recent study has found that researchers acknowledge engaging in "normal misbehaviors" in their everyday research life, including abusing post-doctorate students, taking credit when it's not due, culling data based on experience, and shabby documentation.
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As if it weren't enough keeping track of the intricacies of federal regulation of human subjects research, IRBs also must keep a sharp eye on state law, and the various areas where it puts additional or simply different demands on them.
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Nearly 800 people have worked to earn a certified IRB professional (CIP) designation in the six years since the first CIP exam was given.
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Even before doctors in France performed a thus-far successful transplant of a partial face in November 2005, experts in the United States had the expertise and knowledge to transplant a face. What they have lacked is the right person to receive the graft.
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Knowing that you have hit on the ideal medication for your patient's condition is a satisfying feeling. But if you fail to ask one important question before handing him the prescription "Can you afford this medicine?" your careful thought may have been wasted.
