Clinical Trials Administrator Archives – September 1, 2010
September 1, 2010
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Pediatric obesity studies a good community participation model
The trend of community-based participatory research (CBPR) has become more popular as funding agencies and national organizations have called for more studies that include the public's active engagement from protocol creation to study completion. -
Building trust: Researchers come in as problem solvers
One method often used in community-based participatory research (CBPR) is to work first with the community to solve their existing concerns and problems. -
Piggyback on another group's trust-building
Pennsylvania investigators who desired to learn more about youth obesity and diabetes in rural West Virginia found they could benefit from the community's trust in a separate institution's long-term education project for poor adolescents. -
Electronic hub helps translational research
A novel strategy that uses an informational hub, a communication hub, and a data hub is part of an electronic management-clinical translational research (eM-CTR) system that creates a bridge between basic science investigators and clinical physician researchers. -
Better budget writing in these lean CT times
Clinical research (CR) site managers might have noticed a recent trend of being sent very tight clinical trial budgets as pharmaceutical companies and other sponsors adjust to the continuing recession. -
Web-based compliance makes audit efficient
The Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine's auditing program meets the very ambitious objective of auditing 100% of investigators participating in human subjects research. -
Participatory strategies for translational research
Research organizations nationwide are looking for ways to improve links between health care research and health care practice. Still, translational research remains challenging.