Articles Tagged With: documents
-
IRB Improves and Simplifies Board Meeting Minutes Process
An IRB revised its board meeting minutes process from a clunky system of writing everything into an electronic document to one in which the minutes are automatically populated through the IRB’s electronic system, saving staff time and work. The old way of creating board meeting minutes sometimes took as long as a month for IRB staff to generate. Since the IRB revised its process, the staff can generate board meeting minutes within a week.
-
Follow Peer Review Procedures Rigorously to Protect Privilege
The peer review committee meets at 7 a.m., followed by a tumor board and then four administration meetings back to back. None of the physicians really want to be in the room at that moment, and one has showed up early for the next meeting and wants to stay there with her coffee and donut instead of coming back later.
-
New standards for children’s surgery verification
The Children’s Surgery Verification Quality Improvement Program, a quality program of the American College of Surgeons, has released its latest standards document, Optimal Resources for Children’s Surgical Care. The standards set forth in this document are the nation’s first multispecialty standards for children’s surgical care.