More importantly, it is not clear why investigators' responsibilities to patients, or patients' claims on investigators, should vary as a function of this distinction.
We suggest that CRCs with a clinical background, in addition to the responsibilities associated with that role, are well suited to take on some investigators' responsibilities and thus act also as sub-investigators.
Investigators and relevant site personnel were trained at an investigator meeting prior to the initiation of the study, which included a protocol overview and a review of study procedures, outcome measures, investigator responsibility, and recruitment.
As with any other biobank, the scope of institutional and investigator responsibility to disclose specific, aggregate, or incidental findings to individual participants (where linked), or participating communities, will need to be established in collaboration with IRBs and community stakeholders.
As alluded to above, higher scores assigned to care recommendations might be explained by years of deliberation - and emergent consensus, as some claim [ 59] about sponsor-investigators' responsibilities to ensure access to ART.
He would have shot at himself too, he told investigators, taking responsibility for the violence because he failed to drop the knife when the officers ordered him to do so, Mr. Browne said.
CSOs proposed that academic departments and individual investigators had responsibility for developing the needed research culture.
It is important, therefore, that clinical investigators accept responsibility for ensuring that the animal data they use is scientifically sound before proceeding with human trials.
A participant may also believe, when signing on to a clinical trial, that the investigators assume responsibility for their health, including that they will supply all relevant health information [ 17].
DC, NE, IC, CC, AH, and DD all participated in study design, data collection analysis and write up, CB and KM participated in study design, data collection, analysis, and were joint principal investigators with responsibility for coordinating the project and the write up.
