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Kreider and Cohen studied more than 13,000 internationally adopted children ages 5 to 15 and more than 155,000 domestically adopted children ages 5 to 15; they then extrapolated findings from this sample to the entire U.S. population.
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At the recent 58th Annual Meeting of American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene held in Washington D.C., Dr. Patricia Conrad of the University of CaliforniaDavis School of Veterinary Medicine provided an excellent presentation during the Scientific Session on Protozoa entitled Tracking Toxoplasma gondii from Land to Sea.
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Data early on in the pandemic influenza outbreak suggested that most severely ill patients with Influenza A were not suffering from bacterial co-infection.
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When research organizations establish quality improvement and auditing processes, the chief aims are to improve consistency and efficiency in identifying and preventing noncompliance. One way to do this is through use of an electronic data collection tool.
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ResearchMatch, the new Web site that will link potential research volunteers with clinical trial sites, has more than 50 institutions enrolled.
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Patient self-reporting has been successfully used for purposes of evaluating quality of life, satisfaction with care, and looking at symptom end points in clinical trials, but questions have remained about whether or not patient self reports are useful in collecting adverse event data.
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As clinical research continues to show the benefit of using patient self-reporting, investigators and clinical trial sites should expect to see this practice expanding and improving.
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Sometimes the most difficult aspect of managing a clinical research organization or a research office in a university is dealing with the various investigators working together in difficult deadline scenarios.
