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Accurate productivity data is critically important to adequately staff registration areas, but patient access leaders often lack technology to capture this information.
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At Greater Baltimore (MD) Medical Center, patient access managers use extensive training, scripting, and role-playing to increase point-of-service collections in the emergency department (ED).
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The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) IRB launched its massive new website in July, full of information to help investigators and other IRBs in every step of protocol and policy development.
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Almost 30% of completed studies registered at ClinicalTrials.gov fail to achieve published disclosure of result (PDOR) within four years of completion, a new study found.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released new draft guidance in July to update its 1998 Informed Consent Information Sheet guidance.
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Private companies that are not in the pharmaceutical or device or biologics industries mostly are exempt from following the Common Rule and federal regulations, but there have been debates in the past two decades about whether this exemption should be changed.
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When the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published a study about social contagion on Facebook in June 2014, reaction was fast and furious. By the end of July, one could search online for criticism of Facebooks social contagion study and produce 6.3 million links.
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People who have cognitive problems often face difficulties when they are hospitalized. They are in different surroundings, with different schedules, different caregivers. Symptoms of cognitive problems can become more pronounced, agitation worse. They may become violent where before they were not.
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There has long been a hole in the data collected on joint replacements: Patient-reported outcomes over an extended period of time were missing.
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A short study in the July issue of the Journal of Hospital Medicine1 may change handoffs forever. For the first time, a tool created to judge the quality of how one physician passes the baton to another has been validated as effective.
