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Do you want a compliant clinical research program? Start with training and education, clinical research administrators advise. Otherwise, you could end up paying millions if your staff make a critical mistake, such as improper billing.
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At first glance, developing a template for an informed consent form seems like a simple thing. But ensuring consent forms accomplish those elements has proven tricky for researchers time and again, sometimes at a high price to studies and participants.
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When selecting educational topics for your clinical research staff and investigational review board (IRB) members, where do you start? Begin with the ethics of clinical research, advises Lynette M. Schenkel, administrative director of research and academic affairs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
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Carolinas Research Associates in Charlotte, NC, is a small company: there is a total of eight staff members, four of whom are research coordinators. Over the seven years the company has been in business, CEO Yvonne McCracken, MPH, and co-founder Sara Brandon have discovered a few truths about out how to find and keep good employees.
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The audit team from Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Pharmaceutical Research and Development in San Diego has never hired a clinical research coordinator (CRC), but that doesnt mean it doesnt have some very strong opinions about the skills a good one should have.
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During a decade of providing health services to migrant farmworkers in eastern North Carolina, pediatrician Andrea Weathers, MD, DrPH, made some careful observations.
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As the Internet and other media outlets make medical information more accessible to the public, it seems more people are willing to question the judgment of the physicians assigned to their care.
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Despite all of its successes in improving care for patients facing the end of life, Oregon still has not made headway in treating pain and suffering, report researchers at Oregon Health Sciences Universitys Center for Ethics in Healthcare.
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High Court keeps Maine RX alive; DNA bank in the works at Howard University