Coordinating Center
The Center for Preventive Ophthalmology and Biostatistics has been the home for the coordinating centers of several multicenter studies sponsored by NIH or industry.
What is a Coordinating Center?
The particular functions performed by a Coordinating Center may vary among studies, but in general, a Coordinating Center is a centrally located resource center that provides the administrative, clinical and technical expertise and leadership in the design and coordination of a collaborative multi-center trial.
Coordinating Center staff are responsible for all site monitoring and for the coordination of subject recruitment, screening, enrollment and retention, data and safety monitoring, data collection and analysis, adherence to the protocol-directed procedures and guidelines, and the prompt review and reporting of adverse events. Coordinating Centers receive, validate, store and analyze clinical trial data, prepare reports to Data and Safety Monitoring Committees, and generate random assignments to treatment groups after patients have consented to enter a clinical trial. Read more information on Coordinating Center services.
Studies in the CPOB Coordinating Center:
The CPOB is home to several ongoing and completed multi-center clinical trials. Read more about studies within the Center for Preventive Ophthalmology and Biostatistics.
Coordinating Center Staff:
For each clinical trial, a multidisciplinary team is assembled, comprised of Biostatisticians, Project Directors, Systems Analyst, Programmers and Protocol Monitors to develop protocols and procedures to best meet the individual needs of the study. Learn more about the Coordinating Center staff.
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