Clinical Trials Administrator Archives – July 1, 2011
July 1, 2011
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What CR sites need now is Financial Management 101
It's difficult to imagine another industry that would tolerate six- to 18-month lag times on payments for services or products. Yet it has been a tradition in the clinical research (CR) industry. -
Tips for a more useful, accurate CR budget
The bottom line to better financial management of any clinical research (CR) site is the budget. Better budgets lead to better negotiating, staffing, and contracts. So it's a great place to start a quality improvement project. -
Create tools to facilitate efficient documentation
The site source documents sponsors send to clinical research sites often lack some important information the sites need in their efforts to comply with research rules and regulations. So a research organization in Memphis, TN, has created its own coordinator tools and source documents. -
Reduce COI issues by focusing area attention
Research coordinators and investigators sometimes fail to imagine all of the different types of institutional responsibilities that could be affected by a conflicts of interest (COI) policy. -
Assess your QI program and adjust according
Through evaluation programs, a research institution can learn what works and what doesn't in its quality improvement efforts. -
IC tools help validate, discuss and document
Large and state-of-the-art research organizations are proving that technological solutions can make every compliance effort more efficient and better documented.