Clinical Researcher—January 2020 (Volume 34, Issue 1) PI CORNER Christine Senn, PhD, CSM, CCRC, CPI, ACRP-CP, FACRP Explorations into another person’s job are always eye-opening experiences. I have fostered my self-perception of being a generalist in clinical research by spending a year or more embedded in most departments found in clinical research sites—particularly regulatory, […]
Clinical Researcher—January 2020 (Volume 34, Issue 1) GOOD MANAGEMENT PRACTICE Beth Scharmer As a manager for a clinical research site, you dedicate a lot of time to negotiating budgets and performing your other duties. Now it’s time to follow through, stop leaving money on the table, and recognize all the revenue you have earned. […]
Clinical Researcher—January 2020 (Volume 34, Issue 1) RECRUITMENT & RETENTION Neetu Pundir; Mika Lindroos; Jenna McDonnell; Bill Byrom; Spencer Egan With the objective of learning more about the industry’s global experiences and perspectives with electronic informed consent (eConsent), Signant Health conducted a survey in 2019 that sought to obtain insights from more than 130 […]
Clinical Researcher—January 2020 (Volume 34, Issue 1) SITE STRATEGIES Bree Burks As the age of blockbuster drugs has given way to precise, impactful treatments that are customized for rare diseases and individual patients, the volume of clinical trials has compounded. In 2007, there were 48,290 clinical trials recorded worldwide while more than 322,100 trials […]
Clinical Researcher—January 2020 (Volume 34, Issue 1) PEER REVIEWED Robert Jeanfreau, MD, CPI; Nathan Best Attributes of the thorough documentation of research data, endorsed worldwide by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the International Council for Harmonization (ICH), and the World Health Organization (WHO), are embodied in the ALCOA acronym, first used by […]
