Clinical Trials Administrator Archives – April 1, 2009
April 1, 2009
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Reinvestment Act will spur more research and produce more health data
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, signed by President Barack Obama on Feb. 17, 2009, will provide both short-term and long-term benefits to the clinical trial industry. -
Privacy, confidentiality a challenge in using EHR
Once federal grants make their way to health care systems for the purpose of transitioning to electronic health records (EHRs), it might be years or even a decade before these systems are complete. -
EHRs need dataset limits built into electronic system
There are inherent risks in creating large databases of individual medical information, and both regulations and industry leaders in electronic health records (EHRs) have tried to address these in recent years. -
Benefits of large databases in comparing outcomes
Researchers began six years ago to determine whether use of a large primary care electronic medical record database would yield valid results regarding research questions. They found in a new study that using a new analytical technique does work well in making such databases useful. -
Critical components of EHR database in the UK
Physicians in the United Kingdom have been using electronic medical records since the late 1980s, creating a large database that's available for research. An investigator in the United States who has used this database in research says there are a number of lessons Americans can learn from the UK experience. -
Nurse orientation program creates continuity in training
Before the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX, began its comprehensive, centralized, clinical research (CR) nurse orientation program in January, 2008, there were dozens of CR sites handling training in their own ways. -
A mode to improve QI monitoring forms
Research administrators often find that quality improvement (QI) monitoring reports elicit complaints from investigators or many questions about what the findings mean.