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... In large multicenter trials, individual research institutions are at too low a level for meaningful accreditation because many such institutions are involved in the trial and none has meaningful control over the study design and overall safety. The appropriate locus of accreditation for multicenter clinical trials might prove to be different from that for research in general and might be focused on the organizations that have developed to manage the research, such as contract research organizations for privately funded trials or cooperative groups for both private and publicly funded trials.
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  • clinical trials
  • research sponsors
  • multicenter trials
  • growing fraction

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  • research institution
  • funded trials
  • research sponsor
  • study design

  • clinical trial
  • academic medical
  • community hospitals
  • hrppp accreditation


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