Selecting Effective and Productive Investigators for Clinical Trials

Study Overview

Selecting top-notch clinical investigators is the most crucial step in the clinical trial process. This 21-page document will enable pharmaceutical and CRO executives to fine-tune their selection process by learning about the successful tactics of leading companies.

Key Topics

• How to plan for the selection process
• How to set the selection criteria
• How to optimize the pre-study site assessment.
  

Sample Best Practices
1. Focus on an investigator’s referral structure to select investigators likely to deliver treatment-naive patients.
- One CRO has made the referral network a significant factor to study and probe during site assessments.
2. Use a competitive recruitment model to select motivated investigators and accelerate study timelines.
- One CRO executes a competitive recruitment process with the first sites that can complete documentation and IRB approval.
3. Develop non-traditional site selection criteria when dealing with inexperienced investigators to determine their appropriateness for participation in a study.
- When determining the criteria for selecting investigators who do not have a track record, one benchmarked pharmaceutical company relies in part upon the eagerness of the investigator and the quality of his or her CV.

Methodology
This research originated from a Best Practices, LLC consulting project. It was conducted on behalf of a pharmaceutical client and was based on interviews and surveys with pharmaceutical benchmark partners, CRO executives as well as several investigators.

Industries Profiled:
Pharmaceutical; Research; Biotech; Medical Device


Companies Profiled:
AAI Development; Amgen; AstraZeneca; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Covance; Lilly; GlaxoSmithKline; ICON; Janssen; PPD; Baxter Healthcare

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