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A North Carolina hospital will pay $4 million to avoid a malpractice trial on allegations that a baby suffered cerebral palsy and other neurological problems stemming from kernicterus, or severe jaundice.
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Its 3 a.m., and you get a call from the emergency department. The staff is in a heated dispute with a local police officer whos demanding information about a patient who assaulted another while waiting to be transferred to inpatient care. Your staff is worried about violating patient privacy. The officer is complaining loudly that the hospital is obstructing a criminal investigation. Whats a risk manager to do?
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The relationship between IRBs and principal investigators often seems strained and adversarial, but IRB and research experts say the problems mostly can be solved with a few creative changes.
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Attendees to the 2004 Annual IRB Conference, sponsored by the Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research and held Oct. 28-31 in San Diego, will find a great deal of discussion about improving communication between IRBs and principal investigators in both biomedical and social-behavioral research areas. IRB Advisor spoke to several people who are scheduled to be PRIM&R panel members before the conference convened in late October, and this issue features stories that explore how to remove communication barriers and strategies for improving the relationship between PIs and IRBs, as well as strategies for helping the IRB process run more smoothly.
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One possible explanation for why IRB reviews of social-behavioral research pose complications and some confusion among IRBs and researchers can be found in the very different mindsets of the two parties.
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Copernicus Group IRB of Cary, NC, sought accreditation to validate that the 8-year-old, independent IRB and human research protection program was on the right track with its human research protection program.
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Pharmaceutical researchers will have to register their clinical trials with a publicly accessible database if they expect to ever publish their findings in a top-flight medical journal, according to new requirements issued Sept. 8 by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
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IRBs may want to re-think their policies on evaluating research conflicts of interest in light of new studies indicating disclosure may not have its intended effect.
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Salaries for case management are increasing, but the vast majority of case managers are working far more than the traditional 40-hour week, according to the results of the 2004 Hospital Case Management Salary Survey. The 2004 survey was mailed to readers of HCM in the June issue. More than half the respondents (58%) were case management directors. Others were case managers, utilization managers, social workers, or had other titles.
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Infection control professionals in a group of cancer centers have developed an algorithm to help meet new patient safety goals by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The Joint Commission requires health care organizations to manage as sentinel events all identified cases of unanticipated death or major loss of function due to nosocomial infections.
