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This saving of 9.5 weeks for 20 key trials had a significant impact on the time taken to prepare and issue the final trial report and reflects on the ease and speed with which data was transferred to the Medical Database, the consistency of the results, and the accuracy of the patient demography data. |
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X. Establishing Relationships and Avoiding Problems |
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There are many strategies which a Pharmaceutical Company can adopt to support clinical trials. In its simplest form the sponsor can establish a direct link with a central laboratory while, alternatively, the sponsor may contract the |
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Fig. 10
Typical stages of a clinical trial. The period between the last
patient completing the protocol and the statistical analysis
complete (indicated by the double headed arrow) identify the
start of the date cleaning stage and the end of the analysis
stage. The total time, in weeks, to complete both stages, are
displayed as an incidence bar chart where the number of trials
in each 6-week interval are displayed. The gray bars display
the results for trials where the clinical pathology was performed
by outside laboratories while the solid bars display the results
for trials supported by the Zeneca laboratory. All were
multi-center trials completed since 1991. |
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