Managing clinical trials.
Managing clinical trials, of whatever size and complexity, requires efficient trial management. Trials fail because tried and tested systems handed down through apprenticeships have not been documented, evaluated or published to guide new trialists starting out in this important field. For the past three decades, trialists have invented and reinvented the trial management wheel. We suggest that to improve the successful, timely delivery of important clinical trials for patient benefit, it is time to produce standard trial management guidelines and develop robust methods of evaluation.
Farrell
Barbara
B
National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit CTU, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. barbara.farrell@npeu.ox.ac.uk
Kenyon
Sara
S
Shakur
Haleema
H
D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D003142:Communication; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D011643:Publishing