• Quality care
• Quality research
• Effective, efficient, friendly services
Rochester Clinical Research
Key Strengths
• The ability to use a central IRB when needed to accommodate individual sponsor requirements.
• A Volunteer Tracking System for study recruitment.
• Staff experienced with RDE in many different formats.
• An established Internal Audit Program to ensure protocol compliance.
Our Facility
Rochester Clinical Research (RcR) provides outpatient services in a modern, 9,000 square foot facility. We have climate-controlled, secure drug storage rooms, dedicated monitor rooms with high speed broadband internet connection for RDE (remote data entry) access, and on-site long term storage. A referring hospital, x-ray facility and endoscopy facility are all nearby.
Other important features include:
• Minus 20° freezer
• Cold centrifuge
• Regular centrifuge
• Stadiometer
• DXA (Lunar-Prodigy machine)
• Eight exam rooms
• Four dedicated monitor rooms
• Two large conference rooms
• On-site long term storage
Our Staff
RcR staff includes eight study coordinators, six CCRC's, two Nurse Practitioners, a Registered Dietitian, a Medical Technologist/Phlebotomist, a certified DXA technician, two dedicated volunteer recruiters, and administrative personnel for regulatory preparation.
Also on-site are four physicians who are available every day. Specialist MD's for OB-GYN, Gastroenterology, Allergy and Immunology, and Dermatology are available as needed.
The experience level of our coordinators ranges from one to 24 years, with an average of six years. Our principal investigator experience ranges from four to 17 years.
Volunteer Recruitment
Successful recruitment calls for knowing how to use tried-and-true methods as well as newer, more innovative approaches. RcR thrives with both. Experience has taught us the value of having a variety of tools available to ensure successful recruitment of volunteers. We continually evaluate new means of recruitment, staying current with the changing world of communications. All recruitment materials are submitted to the IRB for review prior to use. Two full-time recruiters are used for patient screening.
We currently use the following recruitment methods:
Volunteer database (presently over 16,500), managed by state-of-the-art software to allow filtering of volunteers by study attributes to maximize success in volunteer study placement. This database is the starting point for identifying recruitment candidates.
Physician referrals from large Rheumatology, Dermatology, Gastroenterology and Gynecology private practices.
Private practice databases from each referring physician, with access to over 10,000 volunteers.
Advertising, including television, newspaper, radio, direct mail, community posters and a periodic E-newsletter. We are also experienced in working with 800 numbers and central recruitment services.