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Are You Conducting Proper CRO Oversight?
Are my CROs doing what I hired them to do? That is a question you may have asked yourself many times. Even if you have conducted a thorough CRO search and selected the one that best meets your needs, there is no guarantee it is performing the tasks most important to your clinical trial.
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![Are Outdated Pricing Models Hurting Clinical Research?]( "Are Outdated Pricing Models Hurting Clinical Research?")
Are Outdated Pricing Models Hurting Clinical Research?Two issues that always seem to throw a wrench into sponsor/CROs relationships are changes to staffing and pricing. Protocol changes can disrupt trials for CROs and cause price increases for sponsors. Staffing changes can create new learning curves, delay trials, and cause sponsors to feel they were misled. Are penalties an easy way to fix both?
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![Clinical Staff Shortage: “Growing Plague” For Pharma & CROs]( "Clinical Staff Shortage: “Growing Plague” For Pharma & CROs")
Clinical Staff Shortage: “Growing Plague” For Pharma & CROsAnyone involved with clinical trials knows a continuing and growing problem in the industry is the lack of qualified clinical research staff. A new report from BioPharm Insight (BPI) acknowledges this trend, noting the staff shortage is a “growing plague to the CRO industry which will need to be addressed in order to ease liabilities.”
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![The Benefits Of Outsourcing Clinical Regulatory Requirements]( "The Benefits Of Outsourcing Clinical Regulatory Requirements")
The Benefits Of Outsourcing Clinical Regulatory RequirementsWhen I sat down to speak with Paul Bridges, Ph.D., corporate VP and Interim head of PAREXEL Consulting at the 2016 DIA Annual Meeting, we had recently heard the news of Great Britain exiting the European Union. Bridges seemed to take it completely in stride, noting there will always be changes occurring that can disrupt and erect obstacles to your drug development efforts. While we can’t stop them, we can certainly take advantage of the resources available from partners to better navigate them and mitigate their effects.
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Remember the time when laboratory kits were ordered and reordered by sites faxing in pieces of paper, and laboratory reports were faxed and express mailed to investigative sites around the world? Sadly that time is still here for many central laboratory providers.