The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/10/466/prepub We are grateful to all the individuals who participated in this research, and thank the interviewing staff and co-ordinators, the database management team and directors and the laboratory staff and managers.
This takes patience, attention to detail, familiarity with governance systems, database management, stability, reliability, liaison with support staff (governance, trials unit, sponsor).
The Investigator, clinical staff and data management staff remained blinded until database lock.
We thank PFC staff Gary Zhang and Aimin Guan for bioinformatic programming, Kristian Arndt for database management, Hao Chen for construction of the bioinformatic computing server, Marie Girard-Martel for EST data, and Holly William and Arezoo Zamany for critical review on the manuscript.
The skills of primary level data collectors should be improved through additional schooling sessions and the few senior staff involved in statistical analysis should be provided additional training on database management.
Staff of the Food Surveys Research Group use FDMS to accomplish a variety of complex database management tasks.
We thank the following staff members of CareFusion Clinical Research Services for their dedicated contributions in obtaining funds, database management, analysis, and technical support: Vikas Gupta, Ed Cox, and Linda Hyde.
SANADII trial management staff were trained by the authors to record key milestone dates in a purpose built web database.
Ensure management staff are aware of risks.
The first is Embarcadero Technologies, a San Francisco company that provides database management software.
