European Clinical Research Infrastructures Network

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The European Clinical Research Infrastructures Network (ECRIN) was established in 2004 with funding from Sixth Framework Programme as a reciprocal knowledge programme, to connect national networks of clinical research infrastructures throughout the European Union.

The national participants work in a network together with the European Forum for Good Clinical Practice[1]. Six European countries participate in ECRIN : (Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, Spain and Italy) and the have a transatlantic link with Canada. These collectively represent 112 medical centres and hospitals that conduct in the region of 1,500 clinical studies. If ECRIN succeeds in helping to create a Europe-wide network of centres sufficient scale will evolve to facilitate EU standards in clinical research and appropriate training.

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[edit] Objectives

ECRIN intends to meet the expectations of the EU and the pharmaceutical industry through a harmonisation process, ensuring adequate quality standards through audit procedures and an ability to conducts cross-border projects that comply with good clinical practice.

  • Improve the quality of clinical research through the compatibility of procedures, tools and practices.
  • Support industry and academic multinational clinical studies in Europe.
  • Promote specialty or disease-specific networks, working multinationally and using cohorts and registries of patients; fostering enrolment to same.

[edit] Removing Bottlenecks

A ten-point set of initiatives is being developed across participating member countries to stramline clinical research:

  • Compatible structuring of centres, partnerships
  • Sponsors and funding
  • Ethics and informed consent
  • Legislation, regulation and insurance
  • Adverse event reporting
  • Methodology, data management and monitoring
  • Quality assurance, standard operating procedure and audits
  • Communication with participants, investigators and sponsors
  • Transparency and clinical trial registries
  • Education and careers

[edit] References

  1. ^ :: Efgcp Online ::

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