RTRN Pilot Study Status

• All milestones have been met to implement the RTRN Pilot Project

  • Business Associate Agreements in place w/JSU DTCC/CDU and DTCC/MSM

  • Patients enrollment initiated at Morehouse on July 27, 2009 and at Charles Drew September 14, 2009

  • Investigator Meeting and Site Training/Manual of Procedures Training conducted on July 23-24, 2009

  • Study Database build, validation and testing completed August 27; Release for Data Entry on August 27

  • Reusable database elements, templates available, and tools, methods and processes defined
     

Benefits to RTRN Researchers:

Sets the foundation for future studies: decreased duration between final protocol & study start-up for the researchers working within the 5 RTRN disease areas: HIV, Cancer, Cardiovascular, Neurology and Metabolic diseases, as well as community-based participatory research