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Review
. 2010 Jul 13:11:78.
doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-11-78.

Managing clinical trials

Barbara Farrell  1 , Sara Kenyon, Haleema Shakur
Affiliations
Review

Managing clinical trials

Barbara Farrell et al. Trials. .

Abstract

Managing clinical trials, of whatever size and complexity, requires efficient trial management. Trials fail because tried and tested systems handed down through apprenticeships have not been documented, evaluated or published to guide new trialists starting out in this important field. For the past three decades, trialists have invented and reinvented the trial management wheel. We suggest that to improve the successful, timely delivery of important clinical trials for patient benefit, it is time to produce standard trial management guidelines and develop robust methods of evaluation.

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