Quality assurance in a large clinical trials consortium: The experience of the Tuberculosis Trials Consortium

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 554-560

  Sandman, Laurie ^a   Mosher, Ann ^b   Khan, Awal ^c   Tapy, Jan ^d   Condos, Rany ^a   Ferrell, Scott ^e   Vernon, Andrew ^c  

^a BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITAL AUTHORITY   (United States)

^e SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Data management; Data quality assurance; Monitoring; Multicenter clinical trials; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PROCESS CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARDIZATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DATABASES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 33750349084     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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