Articles Tagged With: flexibility
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Changes to Stark Law Create Leeway for Inadvertent Errors
Proposed changes to the Physician Self-Referral Law (Stark Law) and other laws would give healthcare organizations more ability to avoid self-disclosure and refunds. The changes are expected to be finalized soon.
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FDA Releases Q&A for COVID-19 and Clinical Trials
The Food and Drug Administration recently released updated guidance on conducting clinical trials of medical products during the COVID-19 pandemic. The new version of the guidelines includes a question-and-answer section that clarifies some emergency changes affecting human research protection policies and procedures.
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SBER Programs Face Challenges with Revised Common Rule
Social-behavioral-educational research programs have always faced challenges fitting their work into the parameters of human research protection rules and regulations devised with biomedical research in mind. But the revised Common Rule has produced new issues with informed consent.
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Are flexible resident duty hour policies safe for surgery patients?
Allowing residents the flexibility to work longer shifts than allowed in the United States and to take less time off between shifts to provide continuity of patient care is not associated with a greater risk to patients of early serious postoperative complications or death, according to study results involving 117 U.S. general surgery residency programs and 151 hospitals.
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Flexible resident duty hour policies safe for patients?
Allowing residents the flexibility to work longer shifts than allowed in the United States and to take less time off between shifts to provide continuity of patient care is not associated with a greater risk to patients of early serious postoperative complications or death, according to study results involving 117 U.S. general surgery residency programs and 151 hospitals.