What are the roles and valued attributes of a Trial Steering Committee? Ethnographic study of eight clinical trials facing challenges

Trials

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Daykin, Anne ^a   Selman, Lucy E ^a   Cramer, Helen ^a   McCann, Sharon ^g   Shorter, Gillian W ^b,c   Sydes, Matthew R ^d,e   Gamble, Carrol ^f   Macefield, Rhiannon ^a   Lane, J Athene ^a   Shaw, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d MRC CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^e MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^g NONE

Author keywords

Good clinical practice; Randomised trials; Terms of reference; Trial monitoring; Trial Steering Committees

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; FRIEND; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MODEL; MONITORING; PATIENT ADVOCACY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; RUNNING; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TENSION; WELLBEING; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84977073551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-016-1425-y     Document Type: Article

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