Clinical Trials
Our clinical trials coordination and data management services are dedicated to transforming your research vision into reality, ensuring precision, compliance, and clarity at every stage of your clinical journey.
Comprehensive Clinical Trial Management
Extensive industry and government experience that guides clinical studies from inception to closeout
CCSA reaches goals—on target and on budget. We designed and filed the first successful Master IND in the history of the US with FDA in 2009 for the innovative adaptive breast cancer study, I-SPY 2 TRIAL, and expanded it to the I-SPY COVID Trial in the worldwide fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Navigating Clinical Compliance
Study start-up and planning
Rapid start-up for all phases of clinical studies.
- Project team identification and management
- Site identification, qualification, and selection
- Investigator recruitment
- Investigator agreement/payment
- Study supply management
- Central laboratory management
- Meeting planning and logistical support
Study personnel
Study-specific procedures provided.
- Remote investigator and initiation meetings, including planning and organization
- Remote or on-site training
- Investigator/patient retention strategies
- Facilitation and maintenance of site communications
Study Documents
Study-specific, customized document management and coordination.
- Protocol design and maintenance
- SAPs
- MOP preparation and maintenance
- eCRF design and development
- eCRF completion guidelines
- Investigational drug logs and tracking
- Deviation management
- IRB/IEC document generation, submission, and tracking
- Safety reporting coordination
- Query resolution coordination
- Monitoring plan development and maintenance
- eTMF design and management
- ICF development and maintenance
Site visits
On-site and remote monitoring and coordination to ensure timely, quality data collection.
- On-site and remote survey contacts and qualifications
- Client-customized/risk-based on-site and remote routine monitoring (pre-study, initiation/activation, interim, closeout)
- GCP/ICH/NIH/OHRP/HIPAA/FDA compliance
- Common Rule compliance
- Query and discrepancy resolution
Quality assurance and compliance
Unmatched grasp of regulations, practices, and tools for ensuring data quality.
- Oversee protocol and medical monitoring
- Design and implement Quality Management Plans
- Prepare clients for regulatory inspections
- Provide comprehensive knowledge of FDA regulations
- Conduct comprehensive audits of systems, investigational sites, and study documentation to ensure compliance with GLP, ICH, and GCP requirements
- Create client-specific audit plans to address each audit goal
- Prepare reports at the conclusion of each audit, providing detailed observations and required corrective action
Auditing services
Detail-oriented quality assurance experts for every need.
- Prepare and maintain audit plans
- Provide nonclinical, clinical, and regulatory audits in compliance with FDA/ICH/GCP/OHRP/HIPAA
- Create corrective action plans and follow-ups
- Provide site staff training and education
- Perform site and study audits
- Assesss site qualification
- Conduct data system audits, study data audits, SOP and compliance audits, and CRO audits