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Clinical trial investigators and sites increasingly may need to rely on recruitment experts in coming years as community-based research increases and the industry evolves.
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The informed consent process is more challenging because of the public's lack of understanding and trust of research.
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Clinical research professionals at Summa Health System in Akron, OH, have found that some details on recruitment materials can make a big difference in how potential research participants view a clinical trial.
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Clinical trial sites and research professionals should be cautious and learn from their peers' mistakes to prevent clinical research (CR) litigation, experts say.
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Clinical research teams and investigators may find that their traditional strategies for handling incidental findings during a trial are inadequate in this age of genetic research.
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Investigators too often use informed consent documents that lack the simple language and optimal reading level for communicating information to potential volunteers, an expert says.
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This single-center, retrospective study examined ICU mortality and various risk factors among critically ill patients who developed bacteremia during their VAP episode.
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Use of specially trained palliative care teams in the ICU has increased in frequency in recent years. Consultation by these teams tends to occur very late in patients' length of stay. Few studies have been performed evaluating outcomes, such as length of stay.
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Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is increasingly recognized as a source of infection in immunocompromised ICU patients, but accurate diagnosis remains challenging.
