goBalto takes London Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at one of Informa’s latest conferences in London, England: Site Feasibility and Study Start Up. For me, the first milestone was when I boarded my first flight to Heathrow. Even with 80+ mph winds at our rear and a 3 hour shorter flight than [...]
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The burden of running a trial today. Study sites are key to the success of clinical research. After all, they are the link to the study subject, conduct the protocol and provide the data from the trial. Like marathon runners constantly in motion, they are incredibly busy with the numerous tasks involved in conducting trials [...]
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Authored by: Dan Sfera I just wrapped up an hour long interview with Ana Marquez for my clinical trial talk show, “The Clinical Trials Guru”. What we discussed during that interview actually inspired me to delve deeper into the subject of research clinics and their handling of cash flow, invoicing, contract negotiations and the like. [...]
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Authored by Sherry Reuter Interview with a Patient… We often talk about the challenges of Patient Recruitment and Retention in conducting clinical trials and speculate on ways to improve our performance. But how often do we go straight to the source to talk to study subjects about how we could do better? I decided to [...]
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Study sites have numerous responsibilities and must perform a daunting number of tasks. The one aspect of conducting clinical trials that sites usually spend the most time working on is Patient Recruitment, and yet, statistics show that despite their efforts, reaching enrollment goals per timeline is frustratingly elusive in many studies. The September 2011 volume [...]
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Introduction I read with interest the beginning of this series titled “Sites – It’s Where the Patients Are!” and “The List”. What a great start to a conversation amongst some of the major players in the clinical trials arena. But I believe one of the crucial players was not mentioned – the IRB. I have [...]
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Introduction I have been a PI for 17 years having conducted pharmaceutical and device studies for both established and startup sponsors and CROs. As a practicing obstetrician/gynecologist, participating in clinical trials has given me the opportunity to offer cutting edge treatments to my patients and has kept me current with trends in my specialty. Most [...]
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I have been working on several blogs this week and while many will resonate quite well with most if not all of us in this industry, I had to pull back and really ponder on one topic that has had me thinking a lot lately. The question of why we are in this industry and [...]
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Forward by: Dan Manak, Director of Business Development, goBalto, Inc. Sites – It’s Where the Patients Are! Ever since I left my first job out of college (late 80’s), working in an environmental organic chem. lab, I think I have been working directly with physicians and their offices. From that lab, I went to carry [...]
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If you’ve spent any time at all working in the clinical research and/or pharmaceutical/biotech/med-device industries, when you think of sales cycles and adoption curves for new technology usually there is a long ‘groan’ involved. Pharma companies are conservative – we get it. Let’s face it, our approach to medicine today is not unlike throwing darts [...]
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