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Protocol Design Impact on Patient Recruitment and Retention Rates
1999-02 vs. 2003-06
By Mark P. Mathieu
Enrollment rates for volunteers who met the rising number of protocol eligibility criteria dropped from 75% in 1999-02 to 59% in 2003-06.
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caBIG: Fostering Better Connections with Open Source Software |
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Workgroup Sets Priorities to Harmonize Standards for EHRs and Research |
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OPEN SOURCE
caBIG: Fostering Better Connections with Open Source Software
By Deborah Borfitz
The free, open source clinical trials software tools of the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) have been downloadable, in a single bundle, from the website of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology since early last year. With November’s release of the caBIG Clinical Trials Suite (version 1.1), individual components also have newfound speed and simplicity of use.
The Suite, overall, can be more easily configured and installed and has enhanced user interfaces and documentation, says John Speakman, associate director of clinical trials products and programs for the Center. While the software has been crafted in response to the needs of clinical researchers in oncology, it is “by and large generic” and thus widely applicable beyond cancer. More.
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Kevin Davies Sits Down With Paul Bleicher
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STANDARDS
Workgroup Sets Priorities to Harmonize Standards for EHRs and Research
By Ann Neuer
 The much anticipated convergence of data between clinical trials and electronic health records (EHR) is heading toward reality with the recent formation of the EHR Clinical Research Value Case Workgroup. Convened in November by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the workgroup is a cross-section of experts from industry, academia, standards organizations, and government who have come together to identify priorities for the harmonization of technical standards needed to ensure the interoperability of EHRs and global clinical research applications.
“It’s a neutral group of stakeholder representatives that will set priorities for interoperability specification development in the clinical research space,” says Rebecca Kush, president and CEO of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) and co-chair of this initiative. More.
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TRAINING
NIH Takes Clinical Research Course Directly to Beijing
By Deborah Borfitz
 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently debuted an introductory course on the principles and practice of clinical research in Beijing, China. The course is normally taught over one semester at the Clinical Center, the NIH’s clinical research hospital in Bethesda, says director John Gallin. But last November, 111 physicians completed the same course in Beijing, compressed into one week, and did as well on their final as students taking the class’s longer version. More.
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2009 Clinical Trials Predictions and Resolutions
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The Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) presents LabAutomation2009, January 24-28, in Palm Springs, CA.
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