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Pregnant women and new mothers need information and support so they can plan and be proactive if they choose to breastfeed their babies, according to The Joint Commission's (TJC's) newest Speak Up educational campaign.
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Educators often talk about "teachable moments," those times when the patient is ready to learn. This moment might be in a waiting area, exam room, or a hospital bed. To take advantage of these times, staff in the Section of Patient Education at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, look for new ways to deliver patient education.
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The Joint Commission has release another episode in its animated Speak Up video series, "Speak Up: Reduce the Risk of Falling."
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Many research institutions now have quality assurance/improvement projects that include research site audits or quality checks. But how many have thought about performing such a quality check on the IRB's work?
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The way investigators, research institutions, and IRBs handle incidental findings has evolved in recent years, with a consensus now forming around the belief that research sites have an ethical responsibility when it comes to reporting certain incidental findings to research subjects.
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The Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) proposes extensive changes to the way that exempt and expedited studies are currently handled, with an emphasis on streamlining the process for researchers who conduct minimal risk activities, particularly in the social sciences.
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Researchers studying whether specially padded underwear protected elderly wearers from hip fractures came up with a one-sided garment design that allowed them to compare the results of a padded hip and an unprotected hip on the same person.
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The most recent statistics gathered from the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs' (AAHRPP) client institutions don't look all that different from the baseline metrics released last year.
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In its proposed revision of the Common Rule, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is considering the most extensive changes to human subjects protection regulations in decades.
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When human subjects research directors finish sifting through the proposed Common Rule changes, they likely will find some things they can live with and plenty of others they'd like to modify.
