Clinical Research Coordinator Manual

This book is divided into 25 chapters covering more than 300 topics. This book will serve as a training guide to make your routine tasks more efficient, compliant and easy. After reading this book, Clinical Research Coordinators, clinical research personnel and aspirants would get:# Step by step in-depth training on roles and responsibilities of a clinical research coordinator before, during and after the completion of a clinical trial.# Discussion on day-to-day challenges and their solutions.# Training through real-time examples and ready-made checklists to conduct each activity more efficiently and correctly.# Guidance through strategies and measures to execute critical clinical trial activities.# Training on regulatory and ICH-GCP guidelines.# Tips on effective communication and coordination with site staff, investigator, sponsor, and IRB.# Assistance to become a better and successful clinical research coordinator. # Knowledge on other essential topics of clinical research.

This book is divided into 25 chapters covering more than 300 topics. This book will serve as a training guide to make your routine tasks more efficient, compliant and easy. After reading this book, Clinical Research Coordinators, clinical research personnel and aspirants would get: # Step by step in-depth training on roles and responsibilities of a clinical research coordinator before, during and after the completion of a clinical trial. # Discussion on day-to-day challenges and their solutions. # Training through real-time examples and ready-made checklists to conduct each activity more efficiently and correctly. # Guidance through strategies and measures to execute critical clinical trial activities. # Training on regulatory and ICH-GCP guidelines. # Tips on effective communication and coordination with site staff, investigator, sponsor, and IRB. # Assistance to become a better and successful clinical research coordinator. # Knowledge on other essential topics of clinical research.

In this revised third edition of the essential reference for clinical research coordinators (CRCs), Deborrah Norris provides expanded coverage of CRC duties and regulatory requirements, including new sections on investigator responsibilities, data clarification, and adverse event reporting. The book's five appendices include a directory of CRC resources, updated forms and checklists, state regulatory requirements and contact information, conversion charts and tables, a glossary, and more.

"The publication of the second edition of this manual comes at an important juncture in the history of clinical research. As advances in information technology make it possible to link individuals and groups in diverse locations in jointly seeking the answers to pressing global health problems, it is critically important to remain vigilant about moral and ethical safeguards for every patient enrolled in a trial. Those who study this manual will be well aware of how to ensure patient safety along with fiscal responsibility, trial efficiency, and research integrity." —Robert Harrington, Professor of Medicine, Director, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina, USA The Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) is one of the world's leading academic clinical research organizations; its mission is to develop and share knowledge that improves the care of patients around the world through innovative clinical research. This concise handbook provides a practical "nuts and bolts" approach to the process of conducting clinical trials, identifying methods and techniques that can be replicated at other institutions and medical practices. Designed for investigators, research coordinators, CRO personnel, students, and others who have a desire to learn about clinical trials, this manual begins with an overview of the historical framework of clinical research, and leads the reader through a discussion of safety concerns and resulting regulations. Topics include Good Clinical Practice, informed consent, management of subject safety and data, as well as monitoring and reporting adverse events. Updated to reflect recent regulatory and clinical developments, the manual reviews the conduct of clinical trials research in an increasingly global context. This new edition has been further expanded to include: In-depth information on conducting clinical trials of medical devices and biologics The role and responsibilities of Institutional Review Boards, and Recent developments regarding subject privacy concerns and regulations. Ethical documents such as the Belmont Report and the Declaration of Helsinki are reviewed in relation to all aspects of clinical research, with a discussion of how researchers should apply the principles outlined in these important documents. This graphically appealing and eminently readable manual also provides sample forms and worksheets to facilitate data management and regulatory record retention; these can be modified and adapted for use at investigative sites.

This guidebook is filled with valuable information on the role and responsibilities of a clinical research coordinator (CRC) and explains the research process from the site and CRC perspective. Topics covered include: identifying the regulations governing clinical research; describing the drug development process; discussing good clinical practices and how to apply them in clinical trials and organizing a clinical practice.

Designing Clinical Research sets the standard for providing a practical guide to planning, tabulating, formulating, and implementing clinical research, with an easy-to-read, uncomplicated presentation. This edition incorporates current research methodology—including molecular and genetic clinical research—and offers an updated syllabus for conducting a clinical research workshop. Emphasis is on common sense as the main ingredient of good science. The book explains how to choose well-focused research questions and details the steps through all the elements of study design, data collection, quality assurance, and basic grant-writing. All chapters have been thoroughly revised, updated, and made more user-friendly.