Clinical Trials Administrator Archives – December 1, 2006
December 1, 2006
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Services help clinical trial sites and sponsors locate "lost" participants
The reality of clinical trial enrollment is well known to all in the clinical trial industry: it's increasingly difficult to recruit study participants. This means that the people who are recruited are exceedingly valuable, and it is particularly frustrating to lose any of them at follow-up. -
Coordinator advice on how to improve minority recruiting
Clinical trial professionals who wish to increase minority participation in their studies might learn a few tips from the research outreach coordinator whose enrollment efforts resulted in her becoming the number one accruer of African American women in the national Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (STAR). -
Study seeks reasons for drop in female investigators
For the past five years, the proportion of women physicians conducting clinical research has declined, despite increasing numbers of women graduating from medical school, according to a researcher who has studied trends in clinical research for two decades. -
Minority community wants long-term commitment from clinical researchers
A coordinator who was the most successful nationally in recruiting African Americans for a clinical trial involving the study of drugs to prevent breast cancer, says that long-term trust can only be achieved with a long-term commitment. -
Compliance course teaches ethics and best practices
A successful compliance program begins with education, which is why a research compliance director at the University of Texas at Arlington has created a comprehensive compliance educational program that has been exported to research institutions around the country. -
Clinical research standardization effort is saving money
For about seven years, clinical research leaders and the FDA have collaborated to develop research submission data standards in an effort to improve clinical trial efficiency, reduce costs, and cut delays.