Shafiq has a new job and they have both just passed the training to work as external assessors for West Yorkshire Police's recruitment programme, which will earn them £500 a project.
All data were entered manually onto the trial database, with 10% checked for accuracy by an external assessor.
Interview panels are normally made up of a consultant clinical biochemist, consultant chemical pathologist, a regional tutor who is responsible for training in that NHS region, and an external assessor.
An external assessor will record all the information except that which is reserved for the medical staff, and will manage all aspects of the distribution of the patients; nevertheless, this assessor will be blind, at all times, to the treatment actually given to each patient.
In 2015, when an external assessor confirmed that Macchiarini had falsified test results, Karolinska University still expressed its support for the surgeon, saying that although there were "certain flaws" in his research, there was "nothing that can be considered scientific misconduct".
It can be rated by the patient, or by an external assessor.
Randomization was done by an external assessor who did not participate in the research.
26 Analysis of scanned copies of medication charts, for the primary outcomes of omissions and errors, was conducted in tandem by two assessors, one a member of the research team and the other an external assessor, both trained in the use of validated audit tools 1 and blinded to randomisation.
This External Assessor is operating in conjunction with an Internal Assessor with a track record of successful multi-site and multi-national project management.
