A Manager's Guide to the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials (Manager's Guide Series)

Content: Chapter 1 Cut Costs and Increase Profits (pages 1–8): Chapter 2 Guidelines (pages 9–14): Chapter 3 Prescription for Sucess (pages 15–18): Chapter 4 Staffing for Success (pages 19–28): Chapter 5 Design Decisions (pages 29–46): Chapter 6 Trial Design (pages 47–54): Chapter 7 Exception Handling (pages 65–72): Chapter 8 Documentation (pages 73–94): Chapter 9 Recruiting and Retaining Physicians and Patients (pages 95–108): Chapter 10 Computer?Assisted Data Entry (pages 109–124): Chapter 11 Data Management (pages 125–140): Chapter 12 Are You Ready? (pages 141–144): Chapter 13 Monitoring the Trials (pages 145–154): Chapter 14 Managing the Trials (pages 155–164): Chapter 15 Data Analysis (pages 165–198): Chapter 16 Check (pages 199–208): This engaging and non-technical guide to clinical trials covers issues study design, organization, management, analysis, recruitment, reporting, software, and monitoring. Free from the jargon-laden treatment of other books, A Manager's Guide to the Design and Conduct Clinical Trials is built upon the formula of first planning, then implementing, and finally performing essential checks. Offers an executive level presentation of managerial guidelines as well as handy checklists accompanied by extracts from submitted protocols Includes checklists, examples, and tips, as well as a useful appendix on available software Covers e-submissions and use of computers for direct data acquisition Incorporates humorous yet instructive and true anecdotes to illustrate common pitfalls Plan -- Cut Costs And Increase Profits -- Guidelines -- Prescription For Success -- Staffing For Success -- Design Decisions -- Trial Design -- Exception Handling -- Do -- Documentation -- Recruiting And Retaining Physicians And Patients -- Computer-assisted Data Entry -- Data Management -- Are You Ready? -- Monitoring The Trials -- Managing The Trials -- Data Analysis -- Check. Phillip I. Good. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. The first practical guide to computer-assisted clinical trials written without use of technical jargon, A Manager's Guide to the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials provides a comprehensive primer for prospective managers covering every critical issue, including study design, organization, management, and analysis, as well as recruitment, reporting, software, and monitoring Covering issues of study design, organization, management, analysis, recruitment, reporting, software, and monitoring; this book is a guide to clinical trials. It is built upon the formula of first planning, then implementing, and finally performing essential checks. It also offers a presentation of managerial guidelines and handy checklists. THE ESSENCE OF THE GUIDELINES presented here-start with your reports, enter the data directly into the computer, validate on entry, and monitor your results continuously-first appeared in a newsletter I edited in the mid 1980s.