Standard operating procedures

The Clinical Trials Research Unit runs studies and trials according to the standard operating procedures listed below.

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If you would like access to any of the standard operating procedures, contact the QA team at ctruqa@sheffield.ac.uk.

General

Shef/CTRU/GEN001 SOP requirements for non-CTRU statisticians, health economists and modellers
Shef/CTRU/GEN002 SOP Management
Shef/CTRU/GEN003 Training Records and Staff Training
Shef/CTRU/GEN004 Quality Checking of Study Outputs

Data management

Shef/CTRU/DM001 Data Protection
Shef/CTRU/DM003 Case Report Form Development
Shef/CTRU/DM004 Study Database Development
Shef/CTRU/DM005 Central Data Validation
Shef/CTRU/DM006 Data Entry and Import
Shef/CTRU/DM009 Data Management Plan
Shef/CTRU/DM012 Study Database Lock and Retention
Shef/CTRU/DM014 Data Protection for NHS Staff

Prospect

We can provide expertise in data management and database design. Using Prospect, our in-house web-based electronic data capture system, we will work with you to design a bespoke database to allow you to meet your data collection and management needs.

Prospect is designed specifically to support remote data input for clinical studies. It provides user-friendly data collection with validation features to promote high-quality data and allows for comprehensive privilege management, enabling custom access control on a per-user basis. The system also incorporates a user activity log and a data audit trail.

For more information, email us at ctru-dm-group@sheffield.ac.uk.