A team of highly-qualified nursing staff, clinicians, clinical support workers, radiographers, human performance laboratory (HPL) etc are employed on a permanent basis from a range of clinical specialties to help support studies at the clinical research trials facility in Riverside. Each research project will be allocated to a nursing team who can assist with:
- Study costing
- Ethics submission
- Protocol development
- Submission to the facility’s Scientific Advisory Board
- Getting an investigator’s study started
- Patient appointments
- Data collection to Good Clinical Practice Standards
- Storage of CRFs and study files for the duration of the study
Skills and experience
Medical research trial information centers in Los Angeles have skills and experience in:
- Non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) monitoring
- electrocardiogram (ECG) – 12 lead or bedside monitoring
- Oxygen saturation monitoring
- Ultrasound echo and carotid intima-media thickness (IMT)
- Transabdominal (TA) and transvaginal (TV) scanning
- Pulse Wave velocity
- In depth research interviews
- Cognitive testing
- Consent
- Video recording
- Clinician support for studies
- Audio digital recording
- Skin prick testing
- Laser treatment