Critical tasks associated with clinical investigators’ conduct of clinical trials.
Gaps and redundancies in training for preparing clinical investigators to conduct clinical trials.
Suggested knowledge and skills necessary for the quality conduct of clinical trials.
Evaluate proposed framework of characteristics within control of clinical investigator sites that define the quality conduct of a clinical trial.
Discuss how preparing clinical investigators for the quality conduct of a clinical trial could be optimized.
Identify the recommendations and tools that sponsors and investigators could implement to better prepare clinical investigators for the quality conduct of a clinical trial. Also, pinpoint the barriers—and solutions—to implementing these recommendations.