Standard operating procedures for clinical research personnel--Part 17

Standard operating procedures for clinical research departments.

A set of standard operating procedures (SOPs) provides a clinical research department with clear roles, responsibilities, and processes to ensure compliance, accuracy, and timeliness of data. SOPs also serve as a standardized training program for new employees. A practice may have an employee that can assist in the development of SOPs. There are also consultants that specialize in working with ...

An Ontology for Clinical Laboratory Standard Operating Procedures

This paper reports on a knowledge representation model, OCL-SOP, that formally defines key entities pertinent to clinical laboratory procedures. OCL-SOP provides a formal description of laboratory experimental actions, biochemical entities involved, equipment used, input and output data, and the data processing actions. We developed OCL-SOP in collaboration with domain experts. We demonstrate t...

The importance of standard operating procedures in clinical trials.

This special contribution provides insight into the role that standard operating procedures (SOPs) play in an imaging department and their value in building a high-quality research site. If you have ever participated in a clinical trial, many of the principles described in this article should be familiar. However, this article goes a step further by presenting information from a pharmaceutical ...

Standard operating procedures for serum and plasma collection: early detection research network consensus statement standard operating procedure integration working group.

Specimen collection is an integral component of clinical research. Specimens from subjects with various stages of cancers or other conditions, as well as those without disease, are critical tools in the hunt for biomarkers, predictors, or tests that will detect serious diseases earlier or more readily than currently possible. Analytic methodologies evolve quickly. Access to high-quality specime...

Standard Operating Procedures for clinical trials of the CESAR Central European Society for Anticancer Drug Research--EWIV. Preface.