Colorado Springs Health Partners Tries New Approach to Research
Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo. › February 14, 2011
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With about 100 doctors and roughly 100,000 patients, Colorado Springs Health Partners reaches a broad swath of the Pikes Peak region. A partnership between CSHP and Tempe, Ariz.-based Clinical Research Advantage is putting that reach to use in clinical research.
Traditionally, new drugs undergo human trials at independent testing centers. CRA's model, used in 23 sites across the West, puts its clinical coordinators and drug trials in ordinary doctors offices instead. That arrangement makes recruitment easier, since the doctors have established relationships with their patients, and means that the trials have extensive medical histories for the subjects, said Mark Hanley, CRA's CEO.See the full content of this document
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Colorado Springs Health Partners Tries New Approach to Research
"What makes you successful doing clinical trials is if you can enroll patients in the trials," Hanley...
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