The Patient-Centered Medical Home: An Ethical Analysis of Principles and Practice Clarence H. Braddock III, MD, MPH, Lois Snyder, JD, Richard L. Neubauer, MD, and Gary S. Fischer, MD For the American College of Physicians Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights Committee and The Society of General Internal Medicine Ethics Committee* Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, USA; Center for Ethics...

Materials and methods 606 type 2 diabetes patients, outpatient Endocrine clinic, tertiary hospital, consecutively included between 20122014. Medical history, complete examination and laboratory evaluation performed (HbA1c, lipids, glomerular filtration rate -eGFRand urinary albumin excretion-UAE). Therapeutic targets defined according to American Diabetes Association: HbA1c <7% (<8% if comorbid...

This study was performed in Ain Shams Maternity University Hospital after the approval of the Research Ethics Committee, during the period between Jan 2013 to Jan 2015 where 200 non-pregnant women with a history of three or more consecutive unexplained first and second trimester miscarriages before 20 weeks were recruited from recurrent miscarriage clinic. Written informed consent was taken fro...

INTRODUCTION Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB) is a frequent infection with high mortality rates. It requires specific diagnostic and therapeutic management such as prolonged intravenous administration of antibiotics and aggressive search for and control of infectious sources. Underestimation of disease severity frequently results in delayed or inappropriate management of patients with SA...

On 9 August 1994 the German legislature revised the German Drug Law (AMG). Included in the revision is a passage requiring, for the first time, that the sponsors and investigators of clinical studies involving human subjects first obtain the approval of an ethics committee before carrying out such studies. According to the legislation, which takes effect on 17 August 1995, approval is to come f...

In a number of countries throughout the world attention is being paid to the ways in which health and social care research is undertaken and regulated. In the United Kingdom, new research governance frameworks are intended to promote improvement in research quality. This paper draws on our experiences of seeking research ethics committee approval for two investigations with the same research de...

The creation of a national ethics committee in Britain has been proposed to overcome some of the problems that researchers conducting multi-center trials encounter in dealing with numerous local ethics committees. Drury identifies three disadvantages to this proposal: 1) it might weaken the authority of local committees; 2) the present system works well by creating ad hoc ethics committees to...

OBJECTIVES Orthopaedists often speculate how weather and school schedule may influence pediatric orthopedic trauma volume, but few studies have examined this. This study aims to determine: how do weather patterns, day, month, season and public school schedule influence the daily frequency of pediatric orthopedic trauma consults and admissions? METHODS With IRB approval, orthopedic trauma data...