About
Pre-trial procedures
Research question
Protocol development
Publishing the protocol
Prepare trial schematic
Sponsorship and governance arrangements
Research governance and good clinical practice
Sponsorship
Approve final trial documentation
Trial registration
B Set-up phase
Select the trial team
Selecting the trial team
Trial competancies
How to recruit staff
Training issues
Guidance on good clinical practice
Problems with recruitment and retention of staff
How to deal with failures to recruit staff or a slow recruitment process
How to deal with staff leaving and how to avoid problems when key staff leave
Set-up the coordinating centre
Organise the trial structure
Risk assessment
Setting up data management systems
Data management systems
Methods of data collection
Setting up recruitment procedures
How are the participants to be identified?
Recruitment - is the participant eligibility?
Recruitment logistics
Setting up the randomisation procedures
Setting up the intervention procedures
Documenting procedures
Collaborator trial recruitment
Collaborator recruitment
Standardisation across sites
Planning for disaster recovery
Statistical analysis
C Active phase
Safety monitoring and adverse event reporting
Data and safety monitoring
Adverse event reporting requirements
Management and monitoring
Progress reporting
Retention
Participants
Collaborating centres
Participant and centre withdrawal
Ongoing recruitment
Protocol amendments
Budget management
Data entry
Quality control
Statistics
Compliance and missing data
Interim analysis
Statistical programming
Scheduling and organising the DMC meetings
Health economics
Costs
Economic evaluation
Measurement of benefits
D Close down
Method of trial closure
Reporting, dissemination and notification of results
Publication policy
Notifying participants of study findings
Final report
Data analysis
Dissemination of results
Stakeholders
Archiving
Completing HR requirements with staff employed for the trial
Closure on capital items such as buildings, equipment, vehicles