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The importance and potential benefits of palliative care to ease suffering and improve quality of life for patients being treated in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) has received increasing recognition but is not without significant challenges, as discussed in a roundtable discussion in a recent issue of the Journal of Palliative Medicine.
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When investigators seek an exception from informed consent (EFIC) for emergency research, they must show that they have engaged in community consultation and public disclosure, informing the public that they might encounter an experimental intervention while being treated in an emergency setting.
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In the past decade, a growing number of academic medical centers have begun offering research ethics consultation services in which bioethics experts help scientists address the ethical and societal implications of their laboratory and clinical experiments.
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Thousands more American senior citizens with kidney disease are good candidates for transplants and could obtain them if physicians would move past outdated medical biases and put them on transplant waiting lists, according to a new study1 by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
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A new study looks at an intriguing strategy for improving study subjects' understanding and knowledge of clinical research. After subjects finished participating in the study, they were given a "debriefing" statement that explained more fully what the study was about and how it would contribute to scientific knowledge.
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Each fall, hospitals seek to vaccinate as many health care workers as possible against influenza. But what if you tried to vaccinate as many as possible in one day?
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This advice for employers provides suggestions for handling common problems faced by employees with early dementia. It was excerpted from a guide created by the Alzheimers & Dementia Alliance of Wisconsin.
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A working group of the National Vaccine Advisory Group, which advises the Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), developed the following recommendations to improve influenza vaccination of health care workers. They were all recently approved by the full committee and are now under consideration for adoption by the HHS.
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Washington became the first state to issue a rule to protect health care workers who handle hazardous drugs a move that proponents hope will prompt other states to take similar action.
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In a recent Sentinel Event Alert, the Joint Commission accrediting organization offered suggestions for health care employers to "mitigate the risks of fatigue that result from extended work hours and, therefore, protect patients from preventable adverse outcomes."
