Clinical coordinator

Clinical Coordinator Wyoming Medical Center Department of Pharmacy Casper, Wyoming... 

Clinical Coordinator and Assistant Professor Department of Physician Assistant Education Augsburg College Minneapolis, Minnesota... 

Joan has been serving as the clinical coordinator for the department of pharmacy in a 500-bed hospital for more than 9 years. She provides clinical services to patients admitted to the general medicine service, manages clinical programs for the department, and is responsible for the continued professional development of 12 clinical pharmacists. Joan is a member of the pharmacy and therapeutics committee, the nutrition support committee, and an ad hoc committee to improve the patient discharge process. She also chairs the hospital s smoking-cessation campaign. 

Clinical Coordinator for Emergency Services Southern Ohio Medical Center Portsmouth, Ohio... 

Catania, H.F. Yee, W.P. Catania, P.N. Four years experience with a clinical intervention program Cost avoidance and impact of a clinical coordinator. Am. J. Hosp. Pharm. 1990, 47, 2701-2705. 

Clinical Coordinator-Women s Health, and Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Pharmacy, Sunnybrook and Women s College Health Science Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Chapter 118... 

Clinical Professor, University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy, Clinical Coordinator and Pharmacotherapist in Rheumatology, William S. Middleton VA Medical Center, Madison, Wisconsin Chapter 89... 

Clinical support activities—Establish clinically coordinated policies and procedures that will ensure quality patient care during extreme emergency conditions when organizational resources are stretched (Table 6.1)... 

In clinical trials that solely or partially rely on paper forms and pure paper-based data collection systems, participating sites use a mail carrier to send batches of hard copies of completed forms to the coordinating center. With this approach to data, forms and computer programs are necessary to keep track of received batches of completed forms. 

Another approach is the use of facsimile (fax) transmission to a dedicated computer equipped with software such Teleform software that can be customized to fit the needs of the clinical trial. Scannable forms are designed with specialized software and distributed to the participating sites to complete. SCs are equipped with fax machines to fax the completed forms to the central location. Advantages of this technology include the speed at which forms can be sent to a coordinating center and the fact that fax communications are very much standardized. Its drawbacks include the discipline required in form development and transmission. 

Other factors include available resources in terms of money and manpower to develop the system in-house, outsource, or purchase from e-clinical proprietary vendors, reliability, flexibility, and security. Some coordinating centers have chosen OSS/FS over proprietary vendors based on the criteria of cost, reliability, flexibility, and security [38]. The rationale is that although both have service comparability, proprietary software licensing costs, both for initial purchases and annual licensing, are significant. 

After the data collection phase of a clinical trial is completed and its collected data are analyzed, collected data are archived centrally, usually at the coordinating center, for future reference. The data archive method depends on the data collection system. In paper-based data collection system, the physical paper forms may need to be archived for a specified period of time. Scanning... 

Speas C, Rushing S, Backfield M. Web based data entry in a hormone replacement therapy clinical trial for a data coordinating center. Controlled Clin Trials 2000 20 2S-91S. 

Christopher EF, Daniel S. Open source versus proprietary software in clinical trial coordinating center operations. Clin Trials 2005 2 S77. 

The biosynthesis of purines and pyrimidines is stringently regulated and coordinated by feedback mechanisms that ensure their production in quantities and at times appropriate to varying physiologic demand. Genetic diseases of purine metabolism include gout, Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, adenosine deaminase deficiency, and purine nucleoside phosphorylase deficiency. By contrast, apart from the orotic acidurias, there are few clinically significant disorders of pyrimidine catabolism. 

The problems of the Laboratory of Neonatology are unique and distinct in many details from those of the general clinical chemistry laboratory. This requires a separate operation coordinated with the operation of the Pediatric Department of the hospital. It requires a highly sophisticated Chemist at the doctorate level as supervisor, trained in this area to insure that the results are meaningful and to supervise and accelerate the development of the techniques in this area. Developments in this direction are already taking place rapidly. The Committee on Pediatric Chemistry of the American Association of Clinical Chemists is now active in developing the list of normal values for the infant. 

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