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Volume 2, Issue 3, July 1995, in PDF
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Article 17: Internet a New Tool for Recruiting PatientsArticle 16: A Tale of Experience: Centralization is an Ongoing Process
- Patients are searching through on-line discussion groups and World Wide Web postings to locate clinical trials.
- Internet provides sponsors an opportunity to speed-up development time through quicker patient accrual.
Article 18: Strange Bedfellows: The Industry Defends the FDA
- Attack by think tanks and conservative Republicans on FDA is muted by industry leaders. Debate shows that industry is committed to thorough clinical testing of its compounds; reform of FDA is not likely to reduce spending on clinical research.
Article 19: Can Academic Centers Remake Themselves?
- The University Hospital Consortium is telling its members that they must "reengineer" and develop a centralized, business-like approach to clinical trials.
- Academic centers that have established a central "office of clinical trials" report a steady increase in industry grants.
- As they struggle to become more efficient, academic centers nurture a vision of becoming full-service providers of clinical research, able to offer management services currently provided by CROs.
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