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Blount Memorial in Maryville, TN, is working with QualPro, the Knoxville, TN-based company that developed the MVT process, on a six-month project focusing on its emergency department (ED) and operating rooms.
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Access staff at Memorial Hospital, a small, rural facility, face more than the usual challenge in ensuring that there's enough information to successfully bill patients.
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summer when debates raged over Facebooks social media study. Public rebukes of studies involving big data and social media are fairly rare, but these studies can raise all kinds of ethical challenges.
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Enid Virago, PhD, CIP, CCRP, and Joanna Lyons, RN, DEd, developed the Evaluation of Research Protections Programs and Committee Membership Self-Evaluation to measure IRB member service satisfaction and performance of the HRPP.
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IRB board member self-evaluations are crucial for determining how members view their IRB service and measuring the performance of the HRPP itself. But IRB administrators who are looking for self-evaluation tools may have a hard time deciding where to start, or which issues should be the focus.
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Human research protection programs (HRPPs) are poised for the next level of evolution as todays controversies push research ethics in new directions.
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For years now, IRB managers have been developing and using tools, including checklists and templates. The goal is to improve IRB review consistency and to expedite the approval turnaround process. While checklists and tools are useful, they can also be a problem.
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A year after its public meeting on the Support study, the Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) issued a draft guidance to clarify its thinking on the disclosure of reasonably foreseeable risks in standard of care research.
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When a team of physicians, nurse practitioners, case managers, and social workers provided care for at-risk members of Priority Health health plan in their homes, emergency department visits and inpatient admissions for patients in the program dropped by 47%.
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A multidisciplinary team at CareSource, a Dayton, OH-based health plan, coordinates care for at-risk pregnant women and follows them for a year, or longer, after the birth.
