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Through a series of case management initiatives, Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge, TN, has dramatically reduced its emergency departments Medicare write-offs and improved its compliance with core measures.
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Clinical trial contract and budget negotiations were cited most often in 2005 as the reason trials were delayed, and this was a change from 2003, according to Thomson CenterWatch in Boston.
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Investigators who used a competence assessment tool as part of a large clinical study of antipsychotic drugs and a schizophrenia population have found that the tools use during the studys informed consent process was not considered burdensome by most clinical trial staff and investigators.
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Developing a data safety monitoring plan is good practice for all research protocols, an expert says. Data and safety monitoring plans may be developed as a general plan for a research institution or center; a global plan for a protocol or as the specific plan for a protocol conducted at a local research site.
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Clinical trial sites often are concerned about their ability to negotiate meaningfully with large companies, an expert says.
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A new study suggests that clinical trial sites could significantly improve their subject recruitment with the use of an electronic medical record tools physician reminder.
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In this Q&A interview, Anatoly Gorkoun, MD, PhD, project manager of clinical operations of PSI Pharma Support International in Saint Petersburg, Russia, discusses some of the differences and similarities of clinical trial research in Russia and how U.S. investigators might prepare to collaborate on these projects. In this issue, Gorkoun discusses investigator training and best practices.
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Every medical specialty has periods of great prosperity and progress and other times when the specialty is in the midst of challenges and/or crisis. For example, prior to the advent of percutaneous coronary angioplasty in the early 1980s, the field of interventional cardiology (IC) was in the doldrums, with a relatively small number of cardiologists mainly performing diagnostic angiographies.
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During its analysts' meeting in New York last month, St. Jude Medical (St. Paul, Minnesota) provided a detailed review of its worldwide operations. It specifically noted that atrial fibrillation (AF) is an important platform for its future growth, noting that "after heart failure, AF represents the largest unmet clinical need in cardiovascular medicine today."
