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Clinical trial data increasingly is collected and communicated electronically. Sites often are dependent on how sponsors and clinical research monitoring organizations set up their data collection and editing systems, but there are issues they can prevent through better processes and preparation.
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Often overshadowed by other pressing clinical research needs, the detailed, difficult process of data management is drawing closer scrutiny by the Food and Drug Administration, researchers are finding.
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Research institutions continually look for ways to make their operations more efficient, especially during lean economic times.
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The Office for Human Research Protection (OHRP) has made educational videos available for the first time on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' YouTube channel.
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One of the chief benefits of installing an electronic IRB system is that it will automatize many of the standard administrative duties for IRBs and give managers and staff more time for work that will enhance human subjects protection.
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A project in Nashville, TN, to engage the community in cancer clinical trials has borne more fruit than its organizers had initially hoped.
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When a research network sets out to conduct multisite trials, IRBs can sometimes be seen as an obstacle that must be overcome.
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Each year the Council for Certification of IRB Professionals (CCIP) meet with representatives of the Professional Testing Corp. (PTC) to prepare the next year's Certified IRB Professional (CIP) examination.