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In Conducting Clinical Research: A Practical Guide for Physicians, Nurses, Study Coordinators, and Investigators, you will discover how to Attract drug companies to your site Land a study on good terms Recruit patient volunteers --- and keep them happy! Implement easy strategies for coordinating studies Organize your clinical trial activities Demystify regulatory requirementsConducting Clinical Research is a practical, user-friendly how-to manual for medical professionals, physicians, nurses, study coordinators and investigators who are interested in learning what it takes to carry out clinical trials. Everything is covered from how drugs are developed to how to attract drug companies to a site, land a study, recruit volunteers, coordinate studies, organize clinical trial activities and navigate regulatory requirements. Even ethical and social issues are discussed. Comprehensive appendices offer essential background, resources, sample forms and worksheets, and information about careers and training programs.The book was a Ben Franklin Awards 2007 Finalist and a 2007 Finalist in Foreword Magazines reference category for professional/technical books.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 6 reviews)

Everything you always wanted to know about clinical research but were afraid to ask by Julia B. Frank, MD (Washington, DC)

5 Stars
October 22, 2006
This readable, lively text provides an essential road map through the slough of despond for anyone who conducts or has contemplated conducting clinical research. Pitfalls, quicksand, torrents and deserts await the unprepared traveller into such hostile country, and Dr. Stone's guidebook provides up to date, detailed and useful instructions on how to avoid them all. The author speaks with the voice of long and sometimes daunting experience, yet her tone is unceasingly encouraging, engaging and inspiring. With corporations dictating the national medical research agenda, inside and outside academic medical centers, the ground rules for a productive research career have changed. Research is now open to anyone who sees patients, and no longer requires the ability to design complex studies and interpret statistical data. Instead, it demands understanding of legal and market forces, methods for to negotiating, organizing and maintaining a team based enterprise, and a large dose of humility and good humor. All of these Dr. Stone offers, along with such critical tools as forms to be used for different types of studies, references to books and internet resources, guidelines to assure that research is conducted ethically, and information on where to get further training and help. Any health professional who has ever wanted to join the research enterprise will find something useful in this book, and those already on board will be carried forward to new heights of productivity and reward.

Conducting Clinical Research by Kari Anderson (Westminster, Maryland)

5 Stars
October 11, 2006
Dr. Judy Stone provides an excellent informative guide to clinical research in her new book, Conducting Clinical Research: A Practical Guide for Physicians, Nurses, Study Coordinators, and Investigators. She captures the attention of the reader through her delightful writing style and validates essential research elements through her immense research experience. Dr. Stone's book provides an educational foundation for the novice researcher and is a necessary reference for all clinical research personnel. Conducting Clinical Research: A Practical Guide for Physicians, Nurses, Study Coordinators, and Investigators should be a "must read" for all study coordinators, research nurses, and investigators. Dr. Judy Stone exemplifies learning from the clinical trials expert.

Clinical Investigation Made Easy by Patricia E. Lund (Round Hill, Virginia USA)

5 Stars
October 10, 2006
" A fascinating journey through the difficult maze of clinical research. Dr. Stone,whimsically, shares her "View From The Trenches" which makes this several steps beyond your usual "how to "experience. The book is well written and should be a must for anyone involved in clinical research."

Splendid, Lucid Manual for Learning How to Do Clinical Research by John Kwok (New York, NY USA)

5 Stars
October 09, 2006
Judy Stone's "Conducting Clinical Research: A Practical Guide for Physicians, Nurses, Study Coordinators, and Investigators" should be required reading for anyone interested in the nuts and bolts of clinical trials research, from physicians and other investigators to data managers and analysts and last, but not least, both medical students and students of epidemiology and biostatistics who intend upon embarking in careers in clinical trials research. Dr. Stone does an impressive job covering the philosophical, legal and research-oriented aspects of clinical trials research, without making this job seem too dry or inaccessible for the novice researcher - for which this book is primarily intended - as well as those with extensive familiarity with clinical trials research. I, for one, wish I had this book years ago when I was working as a data manager for a clinical trials study conducted by researchers from Columbia University's Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology. But now I have a copy - which was graciously provided to me by the author for the purpose of writing this review - and it will be an important reference that I shall use when I am again working as a data manager for a clinical trials research study; it is a reference I am certain that others interested in clinical trials research shall find most useful too. Stone begins her book with an extensive introduction to clinical trials research, explaining why and how it is done, and describes how to choose a suitable site (or sites) for a potential clinical trial. Next she devotes several chapters to covering the legal and other regulatory issues related to clinical trials research, which, I might add, is done with ample doses of humor. Chapters 5 and 6 cover daily aspects of an ongoing clinical trial, covering both practical considerations with respect to issues such as obtaining medical supplies to those related to keeping in contact with those patients who've enrolled in the trial. Chapter 7 may be the most important chapter, since it discusses extensively the ethical issues pertaining to clinical trials research, noting how these issues have influenced the establishment of international and American legal documents, especially in light of the crimes committed against humanity by Nazi scientists and doctors conducting unethical medical experiments on unwilling patients during World War II (Left unmentioned by Dr. Stone are the war crimes committed by Japanese scientists and doctors against unwilling East Asian prisoners and American prisoners of war during World War II; but these, no doubt, also influenced the establishment of rigorous international and American codes governing the use of human subjects in medical research.). Although the book contains two final chapters devoted to politics in research and opportunities for graduate and other types of study pertaining to clinical research; more than half of the book is composed of appendices pertaining to every aspect of clinical trials research and opportunities for further study (Much to my surprise, one notable omission is Columbia University's Department of Epidemiology, whose faculty include notable researchers interested in the teaching of sound clinical trials research.).

A much needed resource! by Isabel C. Pande (Salt Lake City, Utah)

5 Stars
October 09, 2006
Written from the heart, with compassion and experience, Stone focuses on the basic principles of conducting clinical research with an engaging and entertaining approach.

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