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• Referring Patients to Clinical Trials and Registering Clinical Trials
• Financial Information for Health Care Professionals
• Your Patient's Rights and Responsibilities

Referring Patients to Clinical Trials and Registering Clinical Trials

Publications

1. Access to Investigational Drugs: Questions and Answers - When conventional treatments are ineffective, your patients may be interested in trying investigational drugs. This publication discusses how patients can access these drugs and what the drawbacks might be.
2. Incorporating Clinical Trials into Your Practice - As a health professional, you may want to start a clinical trial within your practice. This free tutorial will help you to develop criteria needed to build successful clinical trials.
3. Protocol Registration System Information - This publication describes the process for registering a clinical trial with ClinicalTrials.gov.
4. EDICT BackPack Project - This project is part of Baylor College of Medicine and the International Cancer Council’s Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Trials (EDICT) program. Health professionals can use its tools to recruit underserved populations for clinical trials.  (PDF file, 194 Kb)

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Financial Information for Health Care Professionals

Publications

1. Cost of Clinical Trials - Insurance companies often claim that the cost of treating patients in clinical trials is much more expensive than regular treatment. This resource from the National Cancer Institute shows that this is not the case. It also has information on insurance and clinical trials, including a list of states that require insurance companies to pay for patient participation in clinical trials.
2. NIH Clinical Trial Planning Grant Program (R34) - This publication describes this grant program, which is designed to help fund stage III NIH-funded clinical trials.

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Your Patient's Rights and Responsibilities

Publications

1. Standards for Patient Care at the NIH Clinical Trial Center - The federal government’s center for clinical trials is located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Many clinical trials are administered at NIH each year. This publication explains what clinical trials are administered at NIH and the standards of participant care that are needed to ensure that clinical trials are successful. (PDF file, 85 Kb)
2. Understanding Clinical Trials - Some health professionals may have patients who frequently ask questions about clinical trials. Health professionals can refer patients to this site to learn about participating in clinical trials, informed consent, and the benefits and risks of clinical trials.
3. Conducting Clinical Trials - This site is specifically geared toward cancer researchers and health professionals that are managing cancer clinical trials. This site provides several publications for guidelines and management of a cancer clinical trial.
4. NIH Clinical Alerts and Advisories - This resource is very helpful for researchers and health professionals that are already administering clinical trials. This site provides alerts and advisories for changes in clinical trials that could affect the lives of clinical trial participants.
5. Comparison of FDA and HHS Human Subject Protection Regulations - Both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issue protection rights and guidelines for human subjects in clinical trials. However many of the protection rights differ between the two government organizations. This publication outlines the difference between the two organizations and what these differences mean for health professionals, researchers, and participants involved in clinical trials.
6. Protecting Participants in Clinical Trials - Health professionals and researchers can provide prospective clinical trial participants with these National Cancer Institute resources, which include fact sheets explaining informed consent.

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Content last updated December 1, 2008.