The MRN can provide specialist clinical and contract research nurses that are placed directly in the research site. These additional resources will not only manage the patients but will also perform day-to-day administrative burdens thus releasing investigators for patient care and other principle investigator activities.
Benefits to the Site are that they have the resources available to meet all their trial committments, and in some cases the skills required to even take part in the trial at all. Benefits to the Sponsor are that the staff are dedicated to the trial and can open up new sites and therefore new patient populations, speeding up recrutment.
We can provide nurses individually, full time or for just a few hours a week to support a clinic, or as teams of nurses for a larger project.
In a recent trial the MRN managed a team of nurses running clinics in 14 of 34 UK sites. Not only were these sites who would not oterwise have ben included, but they also recruited faster than more experienced sites by the end of the trial, contributing significantly to the UK being the fastest recruiting country in that global study.
Tasks performed by the nurse include:
• Study site co-ordination
• Site documentation management
• Integration and communication with other departments
• Patient screening and recruitment
• Drug administration
• Paper / eCRF completion
• Query management
Please call or complete an on-line query form to speak to the MRN about how we can support your clinical trial needs.
The MRN can place clinical research nurses into clinics and GP surgeries & practises to trawl through patient notes and files.
The outcome is that we can identify realistic recruitment rates for clinical trials, thus providing our sponsors with more accurate data for trial planning and feasibility, early in the life of the project. This can be particularly useful when working with a site for the first time or where research naive sites are to be included in a trial.
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